As is often the case with kosoden (biographies of high ranking monks) in China, the following story, which could be categorized as shikai (the idea that only through a hermit's power should a soul appear outside the body, with flesh left) in Taoism, was spread later.
その没後には道教の尸解に類した後日譚が伝わるが、中国の高僧伝にはしばしば見られるはなしである。