法苑珠林 90.54

90.54

晉太元中謝家沙門竺曇遂。年二十餘。白晢端正流俗沙門。身甞行經青溪廟前過。因入廟中。看暮歸。夢一人來語云。君當來作我廟中神不。復夕曇遂夢問。婦人是誰。婦人云。我是青溪中姑。如此一月許。便卒病。臨死謂同學年少。我無福亦無大罪。死乃當作青溪廟神。諸君行便可見看之。既死後諸年少道人既至。便靈語相勞問。音聲如其生時。臨去云。久不聞唄。思一聞之。其伴慧覲便為作唄訖。其猶唱讚。語云。岐路之訣尚有悽愴。況此之乖。形神分散。窈冥之歎。情何可言。既而歔欷悲不自勝。諸道人等皆為流洟（右此一驗出續搜神記）。

During the Taiyuan era of the Jin, there was bhikṣu Zhu Tanrui of the Xie household. He was in his twenties, fair-skinned and handsome, a bhikṣu of worldly ways. He once passed by the front of the Qingxi Shrine and went inside to look. Returning at dusk, he dreamed that a person came and said to him: 'Would you be willing to come and be the god in my shrine?' On another night Tanrui asked in a dream: 'Who is this woman?' The woman said: 'I am the Second Daughter of Qingxi.' After about a month like this, he suddenly fell ill. When about to die, he said to the young men who were his fellow students: 'I have no merit, nor have I great transgressions. Upon death I am to become the god of the Qingxi Shrine. If you gentlemen pass by, you may come and visit me.' After he died, when the young clerics arrived, he exchanged greetings and inquiries in a spirit voice, sounding just as he had in life. As they were about to leave, he said: 'For a long time I have not heard chanting (pāṭha); I long to hear it once.' His companion Huijian thereupon performed chanting for him; [Tanrui] then still chanted verses of praise, saying: 'Even parting at the crossroads brings sorrow, how much more so this divergence, where body and spirit are sundered! How can my feelings express this lamentation in the dark unknown?' Thereupon he sobbed, overwhelmed with sorrow, and the clerics all shed tears for him. (This one verification comes from the Xu soushen ji.)