法苑珠林 19.59

19.59

前魏太武時。沙門曇始甚有神異。常坐不臥五十餘年。足不躡履。跣行泥穢中奮足便淨。色白如面。俗號曰白足阿練也。至赫連昌破長安。不信佛法刑害僧尼。始被白刃不傷。由是僧尼免死者眾。太武敬重。死十餘年形色不改。

Under Emperor Taiwu of the Former Wei, the śramaṇa Tanshi had remarkable divine anomalies. He constantly sat and did not lie down for over fifty years. His feet never touched shoes; when walking barefoot through mud and filth, he would simply shake his feet and they were clean, white in color like flour. The worldly called him the 'White-Footed Āraṇyaka.' When Helian Chang sacked Chang'an, he did not believe in the Buddha's Dharma and executed and harmed monks and nuns. When Tanshi was struck with naked blades, he was not harmed; because of this, many monks and nuns escaped death. Taiwu revered him. More than ten years after his death, the appearance and color of his body did not change.