釋氏要覽 1.153

1.153

釋名曰。草為圓屋曰庵。庵庵也。以自覆庵也。西天僧俗修行多居庵（此方君子亦有居庵者咸榮緒。晉書云。陶琰年十五便絕粒居草庵。戈可容身○逸士傳云陶潛居蓬庵○神仙傳云。焦光居草庵）。

The Shiming says: A round hut made of thatch is called an an. An means to cover (an), using it to cover oneself. In Western India monastics and laypeople cultivating practices often live in hermitages (gentlemen of this land have also lived in hermitages: Xian Rongxu; the Book of Jin says: 'Tao Yan at age fifteen ceased eating grain and lived in a grass hermitage barely large enough to hold his body'; the Biographies of Recluses says: 'Tao Qian lived in a mugwort hermitage'; the Biographies of Divine Transcendents says: 'Jiao Guang lived in a grass hermitage').