宋高僧傳 20.39

20.39

釋道行，姓梅氏，會稽人也。父為越州衙吏。行弱齡知書，比成造秀。有僧分衛，行接之談道，頗精禪觀，遂求出家。至四明山保壽院智幽所，稟訓進修，拾薪汲水。後遊南岳，聞江西大寂道化，往親附焉。思養聖胎，見羅浮奇異，高三千丈，有七十石室，七十二長溪。仙人、仙禽、玉樹、朱草生于上，半入海中。行居于石室，默爾安禪。然或山精水怪，往往驚鳴，行視之蔑如也。有老人容貌端正，衣冠華楚，再拜稽顙云：「我居此中僅二百載，今因師住，冥感匪躬，逍遙脫苦，歸人趣受樂矣。」其感物多此類也。寶曆九載疾終，春秋九十五。其年九月十八日入塔焉。

Shi Daohang, surnamed Mei, was a native of Kuaiji. His father was an administrative clerk in Yuezhou. Hang was literate from an early age, and by the time he came of age he had become an accomplished talent. There was a monk begging for alms; Hang received him and spoke of the Way, showing considerable refinement in dhyāna contemplation, whereupon he sought pravrajyā. He went to Zhiyou of Baoshou Cloister on Mount Siming, received his instruction, and made progress in his cultivation, gathering firewood and drawing water. Later he traveled to Nanyue, and hearing of the spiritual transformation wrought by the Great Master Daji in Jiangxi, he went to attach himself to him. Yearning to nurture the sacred embryo, he saw the marvelous wonders of Luofu: three thousand zhang high, with seventy stone chambers and seventy-two long streams. Immortals, miraculous birds, jade trees, and vermilion herbs grew upon it, and it entered halfway into the sea. Hang dwelt in a stone chamber, resting in dhyāna in silent stillness. Yet mountain spirits and water monsters frequently shrieked in alarm; Hang looked upon them with disdain. An old man, handsome and dignified in appearance, with resplendent robe and cap, bowed twice, touched his forehead to the ground, and said, 'I have dwelled herein for nearly two hundred years. Now, owing to the Master's presence, through a profound resonance not of my own power, I am roaming free and released from suffering, returning to the human realm to experience pleasure.' Most of his resonances with beings were of this sort. In the ninth year of Baoli he died of illness at the age of ninety-five. On the eighteenth day of the ninth month of that year, he was enshrined in a stupa.