宋高僧傳 29.4

29.4

釋智一者，不詳何許人也。居靈隱寺之半峯，精守戒範，而善長嘯。嘯終，乃牽曳其聲，杳入雲際，如吹笳葉，若揭遊絲，徐舉徐揚，載哀載咽，颼飀淒切，聽者悲涼，謂之哀松之梵。頗生物善，或在像前讚詠流靡。於靈山㵎邊，養一白猿，有時驀山踰㵎，久而不還。一乃吮吻張喉作梵呼之，則猿至矣。時人謂之白猿梵召。一公為猿父，猶狙公也。其後㵎邊群狙聚焉。每至眾僧齋訖，歛生飯送猿臺所，後令山童呼三二聲，則群猿競至。洎乎唐武宗廢教，伊寺毀除焉，鞠為茂草之墟，飯猿于臺事皆堙滅。一師不詳所終。

Śramaṇa Zhiyi was a man of unknown origin. He lived on the half-peak of Lingyin Temple, strictly maintaining the vinaya precepts, and was adept at long whistling. When finishing his whistle, he would draw out the sound so that it faded into the clouds, like blowing reed leaves or lifting floating gossamer threads—slowly rising and soaring, now mournful, now choked, whistling and plaintive, so that listeners felt mournful and chilled; they called it the 'brahmā sound of the mournful pine.' It greatly aroused good roots in living beings; sometimes he sang praises before the statues, chanting melodiously. By the stream of Ling Mountain he raised a white gibbon, which at times would leap over mountains and cross streams, not returning for a long time. Zhiyi would then purse his lips, open his throat, and make a brahmā call to summon it, and the gibbon would arrive. People of the time called it the 'brahmā summons for the white gibbon.' Master Zhiyi acted as a gibbon father, just like the monkey-keeper of old. Later, packs of monkeys gathered by the stream. Whenever the monks finished their meal, they would collect the leftover food and send it to the Gibbon Terrace; then they would have a mountain boy call out two or three times, and the troop of monkeys would vie to arrive. By the time Emperor Wuzong of the Tang suppressed the teaching, that temple was demolished, reduced to a wasteland of overgrown weeds, and the matter of feeding gibbons at the terrace was entirely obliterated. It is not known where Master Zhiyi ended his days.