神僧傳 4.11

4.11

釋道琳。本會稽山陰人。少出家有戒行。善涅槃法華誦淨名經。吳國張緒禮事之。後居富陽縣林泉寺。常有鬼怪。自琳居之則消。琳弟子慧韶為屋所壓頭陷入胸。琳為祈請。韶夜見兩胡道人拔出其頭。旦起遂平復。琳於是設聖僧齋。鋪新帛於床上。齋畢見帛上有人迹。長三尺餘。眾咸服其徵感。富陽人始家家立聖僧坐以飯之。至梁初琳出居齊熙寺。天監十八年卒。春秋七十有三。

Shi Daolin was originally a native of Shanyin in Kuaiji. He renounced household life at a young age and possessed precept practice. He was skilled in the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra and Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra, and recited the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra. Zhang Xu of the state of Wu paid him reverence and served him. Later, he lived at Linquan Monastery in Fuyang County. Ghostly monsters were often there, but once Lin resided there, they vanished. Lin's disciple Huishao was crushed by a collapsing building, his head sinking into his chest. Lin prayed for him. At night, Shao saw two foreign monks pull out his head. Rising at dawn, he was completely restored. Lin thereupon held a vegetarian feast for the holy monks (āryasaṅgha), spreading fresh silk upon the couch. When the feast ended, footprints of a human were seen upon the silk, over three chi long. The multitude all submitted to this miraculous response. The people of Fuyang then began setting up a seat for holy monks in every household to feed them. At the beginning of the Liang, Lin went out to live at Qi'xi Monastery. In the eighteenth year of the Tianjian reign era, he passed away, at seventy-three years of age.