宋高僧傳 21.8

21.8

釋道義，江東衢州人也。開元中至臺山，於清涼寺粥院居止，典座普請運柴，負重登高，頗有難色。義將竹鞋一緉轉貿人荷擔。因披三事納衣。東北而行，可五里來，於楞伽山下，逢一老僧，其貌古陋，引一童子名字覺一。老僧前行，童子呼請義東邊寺內啜茶去，乃相隨入寺，遍禮諸院。見大閣三層，上下九間，總如金色，閃爍其目。老僧令遣義早還所止，山寒難住。唯諾辭出寺，行及百步，迴顧唯是山林，乃知化寺也。却回長安。大曆元載，具此事由奏寶應元聖文武皇帝，蒙勅置金閣寺，宣十節度助緣。遂召蓋造都料，一僧名純陀，為度土木，造金閣一寺。陀元是西域那爛陀寺喜鵲院僧。寺成後，勅賜不空「三藏」焉。義不測其終。

Shi Daoyi was a native of Quzhou in Jiangdong. During the Kaiyuan era, he came to Mount Wutai and resided in the Congee Cloister of Qingliang Temple. When the director of meals made a general call to transport firewood, [Daoyi], having to carry heavy loads and climb high, showed considerable reluctance. Yi traded a pair of bamboo shoes to another person to take over the burden. He then put on his three-piece patched robe and walked northeast for about five li. Beneath Mount Laṅkā, he met an old monk of archaic and humble appearance, leading an acolyte named Jueyi. The old monk walked ahead, and the acolyte called and invited Yi to go inside the temple to the east to drink tea. He then accompanied them into the temple and paid homage throughout the various cloisters. He saw a great pavilion of three stories, nine bays in total from top to bottom, entirely gold in color and dazzling to his eyes. The old monk instructed Yi to return quickly to where he was staying, as the mountain was cold and difficult to dwell in. Assenting, [Yi] took leave and exited the temple; having walked barely a hundred paces, he looked back and saw only mountains and forests, realizing then that it had been a manifested temple. He subsequently returned to Chang'an. In the first year of the Dali era, he reported the circumstances of this matter in a memorial to Emperor Baoying Yuansheng Wenwu. An imperial edict was received ordering the establishment of Jinge Temple, and an order was issued to ten regional commanders to contribute donations. Thereupon, a master builder was summoned, a monk named Cunda, to measure the masonry and carpentry and construct the single temple of Jinge. Cunda had originally been a monk of the Magpie Cloister at Nālandā Temple in the Western Regions. After the temple was completed, an imperial edict conferred upon Amoghavajra the title of “Tripiṭaka”. It is not known how Yi ended his life.