釋迦方志 2.89

2.89

The tenth: In the sixth year of Yongchu of the Song, the novice Shi Fayong of Huanglong had lofty and heroic aspirations. Yearning for the sacred traces, he gathered comrades, twenty-five men including the śramaṇas Sengmeng and Tanlang. Setting out from the Yong region, they entered the Snow Mountains to the west. Taking rope bridges and using suspended stakes, they crossed stone cliffs; by the time they reached flat ground, twelve men had already died. The remaining companions held one another and advanced, reaching Jibin and traveling south through Tianzhu. Later, taking a ship, he returned east to Guangzhou. What he traversed is recorded in a biography.