宋高僧傳 23.46

23.46

釋守賢，姓丘氏，泉州永春人也。少而聰達，淵懿沈厚，誓投吉祥院從師披剪焉。後遊學栖雲門禪師道場，明了心決。趨彼衡陽，眾推說法，納衣練若之人，若百川之會于朝夕池矣。賢不衣繒纊，布衣皮袴而已。度伏臘必無更易，脇不著席，唯坐藤床，瞑目通宵。除有問者，隨其啟發，雍容自持。乾德中，告眾曰：「吾有債願未酬，心終不了。」明日，入南窯山，投身飼虎。弟子輩去尋，見雙脛皮袴纏且存耳。收闍維之，得舍利無數。報齡七十四。今小浮圖藏遺體焉。

Śramaṇa Shouxian, secular surname Qiu, was a native of Yongchun in Quanzhou. In his youth he was intelligent and penetrating, profound, dignified, and composed; he vowed to go to Jixiang Cloister to follow a teacher and shave his hair. Later he traveled to study at the bodhimaṇḍa of Chan Master Yunmen, where he clearly understood the decision of the mind. Hastening to Hengyang, he was urged by the assembly to preach the Dharma; wearers of patched robes and practitioners of asceticism gathered like the hundred rivers converging upon the morning-and-evening sea. Xian did not wear silk or floss, but only cloth garments and leather trousers. Through midsummer and midwinter he never altered them; his flanks never touched the mat, and he sat solely on a rattan couch, closing his eyes throughout the night. Except when there were questioners, whom he inspired according to their needs, he maintained himself with calm dignity. During the Qiande era, he told the assembly: 'I have a debt and a vow unfulfilled; my mind is not yet settled.' The next day, he entered Mount Nanyao and threw his body down to feed tigers. When his disciples went to search for him, they saw only his two shins, wrapped in his leather trousers, still remaining. They gathered them and cremated them, obtaining countless śarīras. His retribution age was seventy-four. A small pagoda now houses his remains.