宋高僧傳 9.18

9.18

釋志賢，姓江，建陽人也。夙心剛整，幼且成規，既遂出家，尋加戒品，霑甞漸教，守護諸根，抗節修心，不違律範。天寶元年，於本州佛跡巖承事道一禪師，曾無間然，汲水拾薪，惟務勤苦。遊方見金華山赤松洞，是黃初平叱石羊之地，欝林峻嶺，泉湖百步許。意樂幽奇，既棲巔頂，野老負香粇蔬茹以供之。時天大旱，賢望空擊石，曼罵諸龍曰：「若業龍，無能為也。其菩薩龍王，胡不遵佛勅救百姓乎？」敲石纔畢，霈然而作，婺人咸悅。後遊長安，名公碩德列請為大寺功德之師，賢悚然不顧。明日遂行，登五臺，尋止太原甘泉寺，道俗請學禪理者繼至。無疾而終，勅諡大遠禪師，旌乎厥德矣。

Shi Zhixian, whose surname was Jiang, was a native of Jianyang. His resolve was firm and upright from early on, and he conformed to standards while young. Having attained pravrajyā, he soon received the precepts; tasting the gradual teachings, he guarded the faculties, preserved his integrity, and cultivated his mind without transgressing the vinaya standards. In the first year of Tianbao, he served Meditation Master Daoyi at the Buddha Footprint Cliff in his home prefecture, without any lapse, drawing water and gathering firewood, striving only in diligent toil. Traveling afar, he saw the Red Pine Cave on Mount Jinhua, which was the place where Huang Chuping called out to the stone sheep, with dense forests and steep ridges, and a spring lake about a hundred paces across. Delighting in the secluded and wondrous, he perched on the summit, where an old villager carried fragrant nonglutinous rice and vegetables to make offerings to him. At that time there was a great drought; Xian looked into the sky, struck a rock, and loudly rebuked the dragons, saying: 'You karmic dragons are utterly useless. Why do you bodhisattva dragon kings not obey the Buddha's command to save the common people?' No sooner had he finished striking the rock than rain poured down profusely, and the people of Wu were all delighted. Later he traveled to Chang'an, where renowned nobles and eminent masters vied to invite him to become the teacher of merit for great monasteries, but Xian, startled, paid no heed. The next day he departed, climbing Mount Wutai, and soon took up residence at Ganquan Temple in Taiyuan, where clerics and laymen wishing to learn the principles of meditation arrived in succession. He died without illness. An imperial decree conferred the posthumous title Dayuan Chanshi (Meditation Master of Great Distance), honoring his virtue.