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title: "高僧傳 · 8 釋僧亮"
description: "高僧传由南朝梁代慧皎撰著，是中国佛教史上第一部系统记载高僧事迹的传记类著作。全书分十科收录东汉至梁初二百五十七位高僧传记，附见二百余人，涵盖译经、义解、神异等多方面内容。该书确立了高僧传的体例框架，为后世僧传撰写提供了典范，是研究中国早期佛教史、思想史及社会文化的重要文献，在佛教史学领域具有不可替代的权威地位。"
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釋僧亮，未知何人。少以戒行著名。欲造丈六金像，用銅不少，非細乞能辦。聞湘州界銅溪伍子胥廟多有銅器，而廟甚威嚴，無人敢近，亮聞而造焉。告刺史張邵，借健人百頭，大船十艘。邵曰：「廟既靈驗，犯者必斃。且有蠻人守護，詎可得耶？」亮曰：「若果福德，與檀越共。如其有咎，躬自當之。」邵即給人船，三日三夜，行至廟所。亮與手力一時俱進，未至廟屋二十許步，有兩銅鑊，容百餘斛，中有巨蛇長十餘丈，出遮行路。亮乃正儀執錫，呪願數十言，蛇忽然而隱。俄見一人，秉竹笏而出云聞：「法師道業非凡，營福事重，今特相隨喜。」於是令人輦取。廟銅既多，十不取一，而舫已滿。唯神床頭有一唾壺，中有一蝘蜓，長二尺許，乍出乍入。議者咸云神最愛此物，亮遂不取，於是而去，遇風水甚利。比群蠻相報，追逐不復能及。還都，鑄像既成，唯焰光未備。宋文帝為造金薄圓光，安置彭城寺。至宋太始中，明帝移像湘宮寺，今猶在焉。

> Translator's note: I notice the user has provided a source text with no explicit instruction, but the system prompt clearly defines the task as Buddhist scripture translation from Chinese to English. I will proceed accordingly.Monk Shi Sengliang—his origins unknown. In his youth, he was renowned for his strict observance of the precepts. He aspired to cast a sixteen-foot golden Buddha image, but such a project required no small amount of copper, far beyond what ordinary almsgiving could provide. He heard that at the Temple of Wu Zixu along Copper River in Xiangzhou, there were many bronze vessels. But the temple was so forbidding that no one dared approach it. Hearing this, Sengliang went there. He called upon Governor Zhang Shao and asked for a hundred strong workers and ten large boats. Shao said, "That temple is truly haunted. Anyone who violates it is sure to die. Moreover, there are tribal guardians watching over it—how could this possibly succeed?" Sengliang replied, "If blessings come of this, I will share them with you, patron. But if there is any blame, I alone will bear it." Shao then supplied the men and boats. After three days and three nights of travel, they arrived at the temple site. Sengliang and his workers advanced together. About twenty paces from the temple building stood two great bronze cauldrons, each holding over a hundred bushels. Inside one lurked a giant serpent, more than ten zhang long, which emerged to block their path. Sengliang, composed and dignified, raised his staff and spoke a prayer of several dozen words. Suddenly the serpent vanished. Then a man appeared, holding a bamboo slip of office, and said, "Master, your spiritual attainments are extraordinary, and your work of merit is weighty. I now gladly rejoice in your endeavor." At that, Sengliang ordered the workers to haul away the bronze. Though the temple's bronze was plentiful, they took less than one-tenth of it before the boats were full. Only at the foot of the shrine's bed was there a spittoon containing a gecko, about two feet long, slipping in and out. Everyone said the god treasured this creature most of all, so Sengliang left it untouched and departed. The winds and waters proved favorable. By the time the tribal guardians raised the alarm and gave chase, they could no longer catch up. Returning to the capital, the image was cast successfully. Only the halo remained unfinished. Emperor Wen of the Song dynasty commissioned a circular halo of thin gold for it, and the image was placed in Pengcheng Temple. During the Taishi era of the Song dynasty, Emperor Ming moved the image to Xianggong Temple, where it remains to this day.