宋高僧傳 21.40

21.40

釋羅僧者，蜀聖寺中得果位人也。甞寢疾於五臺山，同會僧人俱不測也，而瞻視之，曾無怠慢。將及九旬而病愈，臨訣之際曰：「深感所苦，而煩看視，今遂平復，由師之力。我住在劍外九隴郡之茶籠山爾。異日遊方，無忘相訪也。」暮歲而至蜀，歷訪群峯，遍訊老樵輩，且曰未甞聞茲山名。乃歎曰：「噫，病禪之妄也？」將迴，遇山童曰：「某是彼巖之聚沙者。」即前導而去，俄覩殿塔儼空，房廊環肅，果值昔之臥病者，迎門敘故。日將暮矣，而謂之曰：「茲寺非得漏盡通不能至此。爾以我宿緣一諧遘止。言寄宵乎，斯為未可。爾其克勤修證，至此胡難？」乃命舊童送師歸去。其僧迴望，但見巖壁峭峻，杉檜莽蒼而已，則開成中也。時悟達國師知玄著傳之次，得僧可思——尤閑地理，命為玄作他日安塋兆之地，得景丹前峯。其山若雉堞狀，雖高低起伏，而中砥平。俄有里人耆老曰：「古相傳云茶籠山矣。」

Shi Luoseng was a person who attained the fruits of realization at Shousheng Temple in Shu. He once lay ill at Mount Wutai. The monks who assembled with him could not fathom him, yet they attended upon him without ever showing remissness. Approaching ninety days, his illness was cured, and upon the verge of parting, he said, "I was deeply touched by what afflicted me and the trouble of your caring for me; that I have now attained recovery is due to your effort, Master. I live in the Chalong Mountains of Jiulong Commandery beyond the Jian Pass. When you travel about in future days, do not forget to visit me." In his later years, [the caring monk] arrived in Shu. He visited peak after peak, everywhere asking old woodcutters, but they said they had never heard the name of this mountain. Thereupon he sighed, saying, "Alas! Was it the delusion of that sick dhyāna monk?" As he was about to return, he met a mountain boy who said, "I am one who gathers sand on that cliff." He then led the way forward, and presently they saw halls and pagodas majestic against the sky, surrounded by solemn corridors and chambers. Sure enough, he encountered the one who had formerly lain ill, who welcomed him at the gate and recounted past days. As the sun was setting, he said to him, "Unless one has attained the supernormal power of the exhaustion of outflows, one cannot reach this place. You were able to come here only because of our past karmic affinity that harmoniously coincided. If you speak of lodging for the night, that is not permissible. If you diligently cultivate and realize the fruits, how will it be difficult to reach here?" He then ordered the boy from before to escort the master back. When that monk looked back, he saw only sheer, towering cliffs and an expanse of dense cypresses and junipers. This was during the Kaicheng era. At the time when National Preceptor Wuda, Zhixuan, was composing a biography, he found a monk named Kesi, who was particularly well versed in geomancy. He ordered him to select a burial ground for Zhixuan's future resting place, and he found the front peak of Jingdan. That mountain resembled the battlements of a wall; though it rose and fell in elevation, its center was level as a whetstone. Soon an elder of the village said, "Ancient tradition calls it the Chalong Mountains."