集神州三寶感通錄 3.84

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沙門竺僧朗。戒行嚴明華戎敬異。常與諸徒受請行。於中道曰。吾竊有疑。寺有盜者。同伴反視果及偷焉。晉太康中卜於東嶽金輿谷。起寺引眾。符堅之末降斥道人。唯朗一眾不在毀例。信者由此高之。每有外來輒預為調。舊谷多虎。自朗居之如家犬焉。有井神異。女人臨之則竭。朗謝而復滿焉。燕主給以二縣祖。調拜為東齊王。魏主晉帝符秦並致書遠錫。至今三百餘年。寺像存焉。現有僧住。重其古迹。名為神通寺云云。

Śramaṇa Zhu Senglang observed the precepts with strict purity, and both Chinese and foreigners revered his distinction. Once, while traveling with his disciples upon an invitation, he said halfway along the road, 'I have a suspicion that there is a thief at the monastery.' His companions returned to check and indeed caught the thief. During the Taikang era of the Jin, he divined a location in Jinyu Valley at Mount Dongyue, where he established a monastery and attracted an assembly. At the end of Fu Jian's reign, when Buddhist monks were demoted and purged, Senglang's assembly alone was exempted from dismissal. Devotees revered him all the more for this. Whenever outsiders arrived, he would always anticipate and prepare food and provisions for them beforehand. Formerly, there were many tigers in the valley, but after Senglang took up residence, they behaved like household dogs. There was a well with numinous anomalies: whenever a woman approached it, the water would dry up, but when Senglang expressed his apologies, it would fill again. The Lord of Yan granted him the tax revenues of two counties and appointed him King of Dongqi. The Northern Wei ruler, the Jin emperor, and the Former Qin all sent letters and distant gifts to him. For more than three hundred years to the present day, the monastery and its images have survived. Monks currently reside there, and prizing its ancient traces, the monastery is called Shentong Temple, and so forth.