四明尊者教行錄 7.197

7.197

右通法師石塔記。紹興歲在庚辰十月二十一日，嗣法住持智謙之所重立也。通公來自三韓，譽振中國。住寶雲凡二紀餘，實第一代。如法智、慈雲乃其高弟。天台之教中墮而興，繄師之力。而一時事跡行業等石刻，今不復存。謙公力搜訪之，始得塔記，乃再刊刻。又闢真堂，塑師坐像，及吳越國王所贊頂相併上石碣。除阿育王山烏石塔所，屋之以石，以表示後世。於是通師之道益以昭著，時謙之來纔半歲餘爾。寶雲自通始建，傳二百載，比年頹圮特甚。謙睹之慨然，支傾飭蠹，浸復其舊，亦可謂不負祖師付囑荷擔之意矣。聖宋天寶間，漕使顧承徽捨其第以處於師，其後推官陳雲者，又捨西嶼之田四百三十畝，歲久不復知。謙亦塑二公像，而表出之，人益重其知本。謙得法於延慶第五代明智師，其淵源亦有所自云。左朝散郎主管台州崇道觀王伯庠謹書。

The above is the Record of the Stone Stūpa of Master Tong. Re-erected on the twenty-first day of the tenth month in the gengchen year of the Shaoxing era by the Dharma-inheriting abbot Zhiqian. Master Tong came from Samhan, and his fame resonated through China. He resided at Baoyun for over two decades, truly being the first generation. Masters such as Fazhi and Ciyun were his eminent disciples. That the Tiantai teaching fell in the middle and was revived was through the Master's efforts. Yet the stone inscriptions of his contemporary deeds and conduct no longer survive. Master Qian vigorously searched for them, and only then obtained the stūpa record, whereupon he carved it once more. He also opened a portrait hall, sculptured the Master's seated image, as well as the portrait eulogized by the King of Wuyue, together with the stone tablet above it. Clearing the site of the Wushi Stūpa on Mount Aśoka, he covered it with stone to display it to later generations. Thereupon the Way of Master Tong became even more manifest; at that time, Qian had arrived for only a little more than half a year. Baoyun was first established by Tong and transmitted for two hundred years; in recent years it had fallen into extreme ruin. Qian looked upon it with deep feeling, buttressed the leaning and repaired the rotted, gradually restoring its former state; he may indeed be said not to have failed the ancestral master's intention of entrustment and shouldering [the burden]. During the Tianbao era of the Sage Song, the Transport Commissioner Gu Chenghui donated his residence to house the Master; subsequently, the Judicial Investigator Chen Yun also donated four hundred and thirty mu of land at Xiyu, which over the years was no longer known. Qian also sculptured statues of the two lords and made them known, so that people respected all the more his knowing the root. Qian attained the Dharma under Master Mingzhi, the fifth generation of Yanqing, so his lineage also had its source. Respectfully written by Wang Boxiang, Court Gentleman for Closing the Court on the Left and Supervisor of the Chongdao Abbey in Taizhou.