法苑珠林 5.33

5.33

梁蜀郡龍淵寺沙門慧韶。姓陳。本頴川太丘人。少欲多智聰敏不群。春秋五十。卒於本寺摩訶衍堂中。時成都民應始豐賢者。因病氣絕。而心上煖。五日方醒。云。被攝至閻羅王聞處分。云迎法師。須臾便至。王下殿合掌頂禮。更無言說。唯書文書作一大政之字。韶出外坐於曠路樹下見一少童。以漆柳箕擎生袈裟。令韶著之。有十僧來迎。豐識和慈二禪師。幡蓋烈道騰虛而去。又當終夕有安浦寺尼久病悶絕。醒云。送韶法師及五百僧。登七寶梯到天宮殿講堂中。其地如水精床席華整。亦有麈尾机案。蓮華滿池。韶就座談說。少時便起。送別者令歸。其生滅冥祥感見類此。以天監二年七月三日。卒于龍淵寺。春秋五十有四（右一出梁高僧傳）。

Under the Liang, the śramaṇa Huishao of Longyuan Temple in Shu commandery was surnamed Chen and was originally a man of Taiqiu in Yingchuan. He had few desires and much wisdom, and was exceptionally clever and intelligent. At the age of fifty, he died in the Mahāyāna Hall of his home temple. At that time, a worthy man of Chengdu named Ying Shifeng ceased breathing on account of illness, yet his chest remained warm, and after five days he finally revived. He said that he had been summoned to King Yama and heard the instructions: 'Welcome the Dharma Master.' In an instant [Huishao] arrived. The King stepped down from the dais, joined his palms, and bowed his head in homage; he spoke no further words, but merely wrote on a document, inscribing a large character *zheng* (governance). Shao went outside and sat under a tree beside a broad road, where he saw a young boy holding up an unwashed kāṣāya on a lacquered willow basket, telling Shao to wear it. Ten monks came to welcome him; Feng recognized the two Dhyāna masters He and Ci. With banners and canopies lining the road, they soared into the void and departed. Furthermore, on the night he passed away, a nun at Anpu Temple who had long been ill fell unconscious; when she revived, she said, 'I escorted Dharma Master Shao and five hundred monks as they mounted a seven-jeweled ladder and reached the lecture hall within a heavenly palace. Its ground was like crystal, the couches and mats were splendid and neat, and there were also chowry whisks, low tables, and desks, with lotuses filling the ponds. Shao took a seat and engaged in discourse, and after a short while he arose and bade farewell to those escorting him, telling them to return.' The unseen omens and perceived manifestations of his life and death were of this sort. On the third day of the seventh month of the second year of the Tianjian reign era, he died at Longyuan Temple at the age of fifty-four. (The one above is from the Liang *Biographies of Eminent Monks*.)