法苑珠林 19.72

19.72

近鄧州有沙門名道勤者。於州北倚立山巖。追訪具見周循歷覽。實為住寺眾具皆備。但不見人却下重尋。便失歸路。乃於道次築室。擬尋汾州東南介山抱腹巖者。山居之僧數見沙門乘空來往。又涼州南洪崖窟沮渠蒙遜所造碑寺見存。有塐聖僧。常自行道。人來便止。人去尋行。故旁側足跡納納示現然徒眾不可見之（述曰。如名僧傳三十卷梁高僧傳十五卷唐高僧傳四十卷。及百家史傳。凡聖碩德數千餘僧積功殊異道俗所欽。或散配諸篇或文繁不錄且列少多示知僧德）。

Recently in Dengzhou there was a śramaṇa named Daoqin. North of the prefecture, leaning against a mountain cliff, he searched and fully saw [a monastery] as he went around and toured it: it was indeed an inhabited temple with all implements fully provided, but he saw no people. When he went down to search again, he lost the way back. Thereupon he built a hut beside the road. As for those who plan to seek the Baofu Cliff on Mount Jie, southeast of Fenzhou, the mountain-dwelling monks have frequently seen śramaṇas traveling through the air. Furthermore, south of Liangzhou at the Hongya Caves, the stele and temple built by Juqu Mengxun still exist. There is a clay statue of a holy monk that often walks the Way by itself; when people come, it stops, and when people leave, it immediately walks again. Therefore, the footprints beside it are distinctly displayed, but the assembly cannot see it. (The author says: As recorded in the thirty fascicles of the Ming seng zhuan, the fifteen fascicles of the Liang Gaoseng zhuan, the forty fascicles of the Tang Gaoseng zhuan, and the historical biographies of the hundred schools, there were several thousand eminent monks of both ordinary and holy rank whose accumulated merits were extraordinarily distinctive and revered by both clergy and laity. Some have been scattered among various chapters, while others were omitted because the texts were too voluminous; here I have listed a few to show and make known the virtues of the Saṃgha.)