廬山記 3.32

3.32

曇順黃龍人也。幼而出家。親承羅什之訓。舊疑宿滯多所通達。議論精博。講釋群經。演贊大乘。了悟玄微。色空無著。什公甞嘆曰。曇順實奇器矣。入廬山。從遠師同修西方淨社。志道不群。利濟為本。寧蠻校尉劉遵考。於江林立寺。請師經始。遠師遣從之。元嘉二年己丑歲終。春秋七十九。

Tanshun was a native of Huanglong. He left home in his youth and personally received the instructions of Kumārajīva. In long-held doubts and chronic perplexities he achieved great breakthroughs. His discussions were refined and erudite; he lectured on and expounded the various sūtras, elucidated and praised the Mahāyāna, and clearly comprehended the profound and subtle, without attachment to form or emptiness. Master [Kumāra]jīva once sighed in praise, saying, "Tanshun is truly an extraordinary vessel!" He entered Lushan, following Master Yuan to cultivate together in the Western Pure Society. His aspiration for the Way was uncommon, taking benefiting and delivering beings as his foundation. Liu Zunkao, the Commandant of Pacifying the Man Barbarians, established a temple in Jianglin and invited the master to inaugurate it; Master Yuan dispatched him to comply. He died in the second year of the Yuanjia reign-period, a jichou year (425 CE), at the age of seventy-nine.