四明尊者教行錄 7.132

7.132

師諱羲寂，字常照，俗胡氏，永嘉人也。削染于本郡開元寺，年十九受具，業律于會稽，尋依國清習天台教。昔智者師迄湛然師，燈燈相續，遍布寰宇。自唐武宗焚毀，微言暫污，傳持中廢。而能苦心研味，在處宣通，製科考文，誨人無倦，居山四十五載，稟學二百餘人。鄧王錢氏有國之日，欽其道德，賜紫衣師號，樹宇以安之，齎臘供以延之。今天下郡府匡化紹隆，多其弟子。師與人授菩薩戒，約數十萬。其德行事狀，備載僧史。雍熈四年丁亥十一月四日，遷化于丈室，春秋六十九，僧臘五十。明年改元端拱，歲次戊子季夏十六日，建塔亭，葬于國清寺東南隅。善來弟子二十餘人，長曰令餘，令繼，箕裘者曰皎如，實克負荷，事之以禮、葬之以禮。夫如是，又何憾焉。愚忝傳後焰，備熟前蹤，乃為銘曰：

The master's taboo name was Xiji, his courtesy name was Changzhao, his secular surname was Hu, and he was a man of Yongjia. He had his hair shaved and took the robes at Kaiyuan Monastery in his native prefecture. At nineteen he received full ordination, studied the Vinaya in Kuaiji, and soon relied on Guoqing [Monastery] to study the Tiantai teachings. From Master Zhizhe anciently down to Master Zhanran, lamp succeeded lamp, spreading throughout the world. Since the burning and destruction under Emperor Wuzong of the Tang, the subtle words were temporarily sullied, and the transmission was interrupted halfway. Yet he was able to diligently investigate and savor them, preaching and propagating everywhere, establishing outlines and examining texts, instructing people without weariness; he dwelt in the mountains for forty-five years, with more than two hundred people receiving his learning. During the reign of the Qian family of the King of Deng, admiring his moral virtue, they bestowed upon him a purple robe and a master's title, erected buildings to house him, and sent seasonal offerings to sustain him. Today, those upholding conversion and continuing the lineage in the prefectures throughout the empire are mostly his disciples. The master conferred the bodhisattva precepts upon several hundred thousand people. His virtuous conduct and deeds are fully recorded in the monastic histories. On the fourth day of the eleventh month in the dinghai year, the fourth year of Yongxi [987 CE], he passed away in his abbot's quarters, at the age of sixty-nine, with a monastic age of fifty. The next year the era name was changed to Duangong; on the sixteenth day of the last month of summer in the wuzi year, a pagoda pavilion was built, and he was buried at the southeast corner of Guoqing Monastery. Of more than twenty eminent disciples, the senior ones were Lingyu and Lingji; the one who inherited the mantle was Jiaoru, who truly bore the burden, serving him according to propriety and burying him according to propriety. Being like this, what regret could there be? Unworthily transmitting the later flame and fully acquainted with his former traces, I compose this inscription: