景德傳燈錄 4.19

4.19

The master knew he had fully awakened and entrusted the mountain monastery to him. He then guided and transformed beings according to conditions. On the eighteenth day of the second month in the seventeenth year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang, he passed away at Yanzuo Monastery. As he was about to manifest extinction, he said to his disciples, “Take my corpse into the forest and give it to the birds and beasts.” He lived seventy-seven years.