國清百錄 4.5

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天台山國清寺沙門智越一眾啟。兼通事舍人盧政力至，奉宣十月二十九日勅云：天慈訓誨賚寺瑞名，施物二千段，米一千斛，熏陸香二斛，千僧法齋，度四十九人出家，修治寺宇。即集眾燒香宣唱，仰惟聖治德合乾坤，子養萬邦安撫四海，助佛教化度脫眾生，光大之恩誡無等等。越等雖披法衣行不稱照，乃侍先師每乖宗範，日夜克責無地啟處，伏奉勅旨頂戴受持。但凡庸小劣不識菩薩大智，昔陳世之時親聞師說：三國為一，有大力勢人當為造寺。寺若立，國土即清，必為國清寺。于時車書未一，不識何言。自爾以來抱疑弗曉。奉勅賚寺，國清之名還符本瑞，山僧山民載欣載喜。始知諸願菩薩更相啟發，或作五品或統萬機，光顯三尊利益國土。慶此含情幸聞休瑞，仰瞻寺額即如悟道。但慈恩普被日下同霑，而天台一方偏感弘澤，名衣上服相次光臨，妙物粳糧前後降集。越等三學無功，一餐難受。況米物盈積，豈可恭弘。深懼不堪慮延罪過。庶藉慈宥展竭愚誠，奉酬宸極。但天台幽遠，自昔以來單權獨行，今泰平在運國清寺立，四十九人一日出家，髮落障消實為希有，冀其心力增進學行日新，念念功熏奉資皇國。又千僧結齋凡聖雲集，日色華朗僧徒欣戴。仰惟先師妙德不可思議，感應神通必當鑑降。午後對使人開發靈龕，希有聖瑞，備是使人等公私道俗共見。越等悲喜交至，謹以啟知。謹啟。大業元年十一月二十四日。括州國清寺沙門智越等啟。

Presented by the monk Zhiyue and the whole community of Guoqing Monastery on Mount Tiantai. The Concurrent Gentleman of the Court for Receiving Strangers, Lu Zhengli, arrived and respectfully proclaimed the imperial edict of the tenth month, twenty-ninth day, which stated: Your Heavenly Compassion offers instruction, bestowing upon the monastery its auspicious name, along with offerings of two thousand bolts of material, one thousand hu of rice, two hu of frankincense, a Dharma feast for a thousand monks, the ordination of forty-nine persons into the monastic order, and the repair of the monastery buildings. We immediately gathered the assembly, burned incense, and proclaimed it aloud. We reverently reflect that Your Sage Rule harmonizes in virtue with Heaven and Earth, nurturing the myriad states as your children and pacifying the four seas, aiding the Buddha's teachings and delivering sentient beings; such glorious and great benevolence and admonitions are beyond compare. Although Zhiyue and the others wear the Dharma robes, our practice does not match our appearance; while attending upon our late master, we often went astray from his fundamental standard. Day and night we reprove ourselves, finding no place of refuge. Bowing, we receive the imperial decree and uphold it with our heads. Yet, as ordinary and inferior men, we did not comprehend the bodhisattva's great wisdom. Formerly, in the time of the Chen dynasty, we personally heard our master say: 'When the three states become one, a person of great might will build a monastery for us. If the monastery is established, the realm will become pure; it will surely be Guoqing Monastery.' At that time, tracks of carriages and scripts were not yet unified, and we did not understand what he meant. Since then, we have harbored doubts without comprehending. Now, receiving the imperial edict bestowing the monastery, the name Guoqing accords precisely with that original omen; both the mountain monks and the mountain folk rejoice with great joy. We now understand that bodhisattvas of diverse vows inspire one another, either practicing the five grades or presiding over the myriad affairs of state, illuminating the Three Honored Ones and benefiting the realm. Rejoicing in this, sentient beings are fortunate to hear of this splendid omen; gazing up at the monastery's name plaque is just like attaining awakening. While your compassionate kindness extends everywhere under the sun, the single region of Tiantai has uniquely received your vast bounty: famous robes and superior vestments have successively arrived in splendor, and wonderful goods and nonglutinous rice have descended time and again. Zhiyue and the others have achieved nothing in the three trainings; even a single meal is hard for us to accept. How much more so when rice and goods accumulate in abundance—how could we dare to receive them with reverence? We deeply fear our inadequacy and worry it will incur fault. We hope that relying on your compassionate forbearance, we may exhaust our foolish sincerity in requiting Your Imperial Majesty. Mount Tiantai is remote and distant; from antiquity, practitioners have walked in solitary simplicity. Now, peaceful governance is in motion, Guoqing Monastery is established, and forty-nine persons have renounced household life in a single day; with their hair falling, obstacles are dissolved—truly a rare event! We hope their mental resolve will progress, their learning and practice renew daily, and their merit from thought to thought will assist the imperial realm. Furthermore, at the feast for a thousand monks, ordinary and noble gathered like clouds, the sunlight was bright and clear, and the monastic disciples were filled with joy. Reverently we reflect that our late master's wondrous virtue was inconceivable; his spiritual resonances and powers must surely have looked down and descended. In the afternoon, before the envoy, we opened the sacred reliquary, and rare sacred wonders were witnessed together by the envoy and others, both official and private, monastic and lay. Zhiyue and the others were overcome with mingled sorrow and joy, and respectfully present this memorial to inform you. Respectfully submitted. First year of Daye, eleventh month, twenty-fourth day. Submitted by the monk Zhiyue and others of Guoqing Monastery in Kuazhou.