釋氏要覽 1.153

1.153

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').