宋高僧傳 26.23

26.23

釋惟實，姓湯氏，富陽人。其為人也，杜多其行，禪觀其心，淡然靜居，長坐不寐。初母氏抑其願心，不容披削。既而籠開鳥逝，岸穴泉飛，學善財之遍參，同迦葉之練行。天寶中往明州若[山*(奧-釆+米)]山，夜聞冥告曰：「達蓬聖跡名山，宜矣！」翌日且登其山，巖洞窈窕，石壁削成，秀異之多，實維靈境。有大佛足跡，詢其山叟，則曰「彼開元年中始現斯瑞」。遂願捿此，有終焉之志。時屬海寇袁晁蜂螘屯聚，分以剽劫，殺戮無辜。至于香山，眾皆奔竄。實據榻瞑目，先以大石掩洞門。賊可三二百數，復舁巨石闊二丈餘，鎮其穴口。實起喑嗚，以掌舉之，群盜羅拜以謝之而去。邑民重之，遂立精舍，弗再歲而成。大曆八年也，太守裴儆奏請署香山題額焉，詔度僧七人隷名矣。以貞元二年冬示疾，終于寺，則跏趺而化也。春秋六十二，法臘三十一矣。

Shi Weishi, surnamed Tang, was a native of Fuyang. As a person, his practice was that of dhūta, and his mind was engaged in dhyāna contemplation; he dwelt serenely in quietude, sitting continuously without sleep. At first his mother checked his aspiration, refusing to allow him to tonsure his hair. Before long, like a cage opening and the bird taking flight, or a cliff cave yielding a gushing spring, he studied the pervasive inquiries of Sudhana and matched the purified conduct of Kāśyapa. During the Tianbao era, he went to Mount Ruoyu in Mingzhou, where at night he heard an unseen voice announce: "Dapeng is a celebrated mountain of sacred traces; it is suitable!" The next day he ascended the mountain: its caverns were deep and secluded, its stone cliffs sheared straight, and its many extraordinary marvels made it truly a sacred realm. There were footprints of the Great Buddha; when he questioned an old man of the mountain, the elder replied, "That auspicious sign first manifested during the Kaiyuan era." He thereupon vowed to lodge there, intending it to be the place of his end. At that time, the pirate Yuan Chao and his gang gathered like bees and ants, splitting up to plunder, pillage, and slaughter the innocent. When they reached Xiangshan, the multitude all fled in scatter. Shi sat upon his couch with eyes closed, having first blocked the cave entrance with a large stone. The bandits, numbering some two or three hundred, brought another giant stone more than twenty feet wide to weigh down the cave opening. Shi arose with a mighty cry, lifted it with his palm, and the horde of robbers bowed down in rows to apologize and departed. The townsfolk esteemed him, and subsequently built a monastery, completing it in less than two years. It was the eighth year of the Dali era; the prefect Pei Jing memorialized requesting an inscribed plaque naming it Xiangshan, and an imperial decree ordained seven monks to be registered there. In the winter of the second year of the Zhenyuan era he showed signs of illness, and passed away at the monastery, dying while seated cross-legged. He was sixty-two years of age, and had a dharma age of thirty-one.