釋門自鏡錄 2.17

2.17

竺曇猷。或云法猷。燉煌人。少居苦行習禪定。神迹妙悟未暇詳舉。居赤城山。山巖與天台連屬。而天台懸崖峻峙。古老相傳云。上有精舍。得道者居之。然有石橋跨㵎。而橫石斷人。且莓苔青滑。自終古已來。無得至者。猷行至石橋所。聞空中聲曰。知君誠篤。今未得度。却後十年自當來也。猷心悵然。夕留中宿。聞行道唱薩之聲。且後欲前。見一人髮眉皓白。問猷所之。猷具以意答。曰公居生死。罪身何可得去。吾是山神故。相告耳。猷乃退還停少時。潔齋累日。因復更往見橫石洞開。度橋少許覩精舍神僧。果如所說。因燒香中食。食畢神僧告曰。君有葱韭之氣。未應住此。却後十年當來耳。猷曰。自生已來不識辛穢。何況口噉而言氣乎。神僧曰。汝在胎時汝母經歷葱韭之地。猷慚而退。顧看橫石。還合如初。後卒于山。而舉體綠色。

Zhu Danyou, also called Fayou, was a native of Dunhuang. In his youth he dwelt in ascetic practices and trained in dhyāna meditation; his wondrous signs and marvelous awakenings are too numerous to detail here. He resided at Mount Chicheng, whose crags connect with Tiantai. Tiantai's sheer precipices tower loftily, and ancient elders hand down the lore that a vihāra stands above where those who have attained the Way dwell. Yet there is a stone bridge spanning a ravine, and crosswise stones block people; moreover, the moss is green and slippery, so that since antiquity none has ever reached it. Danyou walked to the place of the stone bridge and heard a voice in the air say: 'We know your sincere devotion, but you may not cross now; ten years hence you should come of yourself.' Danyou was despondent in his heart. In the evening he stayed overnight in their midst and heard the sounds of circumambulation and chanting of 'sādhu.' When he wished to advance later, he saw a person whose hair and eyebrows were pure white, who asked where Danyou was going. Danyou answered fully with his intention. The man said: 'You dwell in saṃsāra; how can a body of sin proceed? Because I am the mountain god, I inform you.' Danyou thereupon retreated and stopped for a short while, keeping clean and fasting for consecutive days. Thereupon he went again and saw that the crosswise stones had opened wide. Crossing a little past the bridge, he beheld the vihāra and holy monks, precisely as had been told. Thereupon he burned incense and took the midday meal. When the meal was finished, a holy monk told him: 'You have the odor of scallions and leeks; you should not stay here. You should come ten years hence.' Danyou said: 'Since birth, I have never known pungent filth; how much less could my mouth have eaten it for it to be spoken of as odor?' The holy monk said: 'When you were in the womb, your mother passed through land where scallions and leeks grew.' Danyou felt ashamed and withdrew. Looking back at the crosswise stones, they had joined together as before. Later he died on the mountain, his entire body being green.