大明高僧傳 3.29

3.29

釋圓鏡汾州臨縣人。早歲出家游心賢首講肆。得悟諸經密旨。常遊平陽府隰州妙樓山石室寺。隨緣為眾說法。一日至北門瓦窑坡。土鑿搆一菴。如龕燕默其中。忽囑其徒曰吾將歸矣。眾請其期。曰來日耳。晨興沐浴更三衣。焚香趺坐說偈而逝。

Shi Yuanjing was a native of Lin County in Fenzhou. In his early years he left home and roamed his mind in the lecture halls of Xianshou, gaining awakening to the esoteric purports of the various sūtras. He often traveled to Shishi Temple on Mount Miaolou in Xizhou of Pingyang Prefecture, expounding the Dharma for the assembly in accord with conditions. One day he went to Wayao Slope at the north gate, excavated the earth, and constructed a hermitage, where he sat in silent meditation like a niche. Suddenly he instructed his disciples, saying, "I am about to return." The assembly asked for his date. He said, "Tomorrow." In the morning he arose, bathed, changed his three robes, burned incense, sat cross-legged, recited a gāthā, and passed away.