釋迦方志 2.85

2.85

The sixth: During the Hongshi era of Yao Xing of the Later Qin, under the Eastern Jin, the śramaṇa Shi Zhimeng of the Capital District, together with fifteen comrades, set out from Liangzhou, passed through the kingdoms of Shanshan and others, and reached Jibin. Seeing five hundred arhats, he inquired about their lands and customs. After twenty years, in the jiazi year, he and one companion returned east, reaching Liang and entering Shu. At the end of the Yuanjia era of the Song, he died in Chengdu. His Western travels are recorded in a biography, which has great and clear evidence; it is entitled *Account of the Śramaṇa Zhimeng's Travels in Foreign Kingdoms*, which I once saw in the Shu region.