南嶽總勝集 2.196

2.196

在廟西二里。湘中記云。晉女貞薛鍊師冲舉之處。梁天監五年建觀。至後周武穆公主周惠抃者。生而有異光滿室。幼不茹葷。長思獨處。慕元君薛鍊師緱仙姑之志。因居石室。感西靈聖母降傳經籙。修三素之道。潭衡之境。士女景慕者數百人。世代將亂。告諸學者曰。我當暫往。約百餘年再來。後學如市。唐開元初。賜額西靈。後有女冠李太真曹妙本。並接踵而往得道。即今常住。乃周公主所捨。觀廢久。馬氏復興　本朝特賜每歲度女冠一人。以永續焚修。

Two li west of the temple. The Xiangzhong ji states that it is the place where the Jin dynasty female adept Master of Refinement Xue ascended into the void. In the fifth year of the Tianjian era of the Liang, the abbey was established. Later, Princess Wumu of the Later Zhou, Zhou Huibian, was born with an extraordinary light filling the room. From childhood she did not eat meat, and as she grew up she yearned for solitude, admiring the aspirations of the Primal Sovereign, Master of Refinement Xue, and Immortal Maiden Gou. She thus resided in a stone chamber, and moved the Holy Mother of Western Numinosity to descend and transmit scriptures and registers, cultivating the Way of the Three Simplicities. In the regions of Tan and Heng, hundreds of gentlemen and ladies revered and admired her. As the dynasty was about to fall into chaos, she announced to the students: "I must depart for a time, and will return in about a hundred years or more." Later students gathered like a market. In the beginning of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang, the plaque "Xiling" was bestowed. Later there were the Daoist priestesses Li Taizhen and Cao Miaoben, who followed in her footsteps one after another and attained the Dao. The present communal property was donated by Princess Zhou. The abbey had long been abandoned, but the Ma family restored it. Our present dynasty has specially granted the ordination of one Daoist priestess each year to perpetuate the burning of incense and cultivation.