法苑珠林 28.43

28.43

皇帝。引入內宮崇敬致禮。合宮歸仰請受戒法。以貞觀十四年都無疾苦。告累門徒。生來行法令後承用。言訖如常跏趺坐。卒終於南郊義善寺。春秋八十有四。臨終忽有雙鳥投房悲哀驚切。因即坐送于樊川之北原。鑿穴處之。京邑道俗同嗟制服。人馬亘野悲號慟地。肉色不變經月逾鮮。安坐三周枯骸不散。自終至今常有異香流注屍所。往者同聞。學侶門徒恐有外侵。乃藏龕內不懼外竊。四眾良辰赴供彌滿（右八驗出唐高僧傳）。

the Emperor, who had him brought into the inner palace and paid him reverent homage. The entire palace took refuge in him and asked to receive the precepts. In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, without any illness or suffering, he gave parting instructions to his disciples, charging them to uphold and practice the Dharma he had lived by. Having finished speaking, he sat cross-legged as usual and passed away at Yishan Temple in the southern suburbs, at the age of eighty-four. When he was about to expire, a pair of birds suddenly flew into his room, chirping with sharp and mournful grief. He was thereupon conveyed in a seated posture to the northern plateau of Fanchuan, where a cave was excavated to place him. The clergy and laity of the capital together grieved and donned mourning clothes; people and horses stretched across the countryside, their wailing shaking the earth. The colour of his flesh remained unchanged, growing all the more fresh after a month; he remained seated upright for three weeks, his dried skeleton not falling apart. From his death until now, a wondrous fragrance has constantly emanated around his corpse, smelled by all who go there. His fellow students and disciples, fearing violation from outside, hid it within a niche so they would not fear theft from without. On auspicious days, the four assemblies attend offerings in overflowing numbers. (The above eight verifications are from the Tang Biographies of Eminent Monks.)