法苑珠林 19.62

19.62

晉廬山七嶺。同會於東共成峯崿。其崖窮絕莫有升者。晉太元中。豫章太守范甯。將起學館。遣人伐材。其山見人著沙門服。凌虛直上。既至則迴。身踞其峯。良久乃與雲氣俱滅。時有採藥數人。皆共瞻覩。當時能文之士咸為之興。沙門釋曇諦廬山賦曰。應真凌雲以踞峯。杪翳景而入冥者也。

The Seven Ridges of Mount Lu in the Jin meet together in the east to form peaks and precipices. Their cliffs are so sheer and steep that none could climb them. During the Taiyuan era of the Jin, Fan Ning, the Grand Administrator of Yuzhang, was about to build an academy and sent men to cut timber. On that mountain, they saw a man wearing the robes of a śramaṇa, soaring straight up through the void. Having arrived, he turned back, perched on the peak, and after a good while vanished together with the clouds and mist. At the time, several herb gatherers all witnessed it together. The literary men of that era were all inspired by it. Śramaṇa Shi Tandi, in his *Mount Lu Rhapsody*, wrote: ‘An arhat soars through the clouds to perch on the peak; disappearing into the distance, he enters the unseen.’