廬山記 3.36

3.36

Daobing's surname was Chen, and he was a native of Yingchuan. He left home in his youth and became a disciple of Master Yuan. He had a profound mastery of the sūtras and vinaya, dipped into external literature, and was particularly deep in Zhuangzi and Laozi. His virtuous conduct was solitary and lofty, his insightful comprehension early and deep. What texts he unrolled he never had to look at a second time. When expounding and discussing the scriptures, their principles were straightforward and lucid. In the fourteenth year of the Yixi reign-period of the Jin, a wuzi year, Wang Yu, the Governor of Yuzhang, entered the mountain to pay homage. Admiring his deportment, he invited him to become the Master of the Mountain, carrying on the footsteps of the Great Master. Because he was the source of the Way and the Dharma successor, the assembly all revered and supported him. He died in the twelfth year of the Yuanjia reign-period, a yihai year (435 CE), at the age of seventy-one.