四明尊者教行錄 7.242

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慈雲法師，台之寧海人也。脫素于東掖山，洎為僧即入國清，普賢像前燼指，誓學天台聖教。徐負笈趍于寶雲，道中忽夢一僧自言：吾是文殊和尚。及至，禮通之足，偶自省所夢之僧即師也，因爾服膺受道。值通歸寂，乃返天台。淳化改元師年二十八，眾請住寶雲，凡十二載，講四大部經。咸平五年復還東山，晚遷天竺，大闡法化，棲遁終焉。師居寶雲，靈跡有四。

Dharma Master Ciyun was a native of Ninghai in Tai. He shed the secular garments at Mount Dongye, and once he became a monk, he immediately entered Guoqing, where he burned his fingers before the image of Samantabhadra, vowing to study the sacred teachings of Tiantai. Slowly carrying his book-satchel, he hastened to Baoyun. On the way, he suddenly dreamed of a monk who said of himself, 'I am the preceptor Mañjuśrī.' When he arrived and prostrated at Tong's feet, he casually realized that the monk of his dream was this very master, and thereupon he took the Way to heart and received it. When Tong returned to stillness, he went back to Tiantai. In the first year of Chunhua, when the master was twenty-eight years old, the assembly invited him to reside at Baoyun. He stayed for twelve years and lectured on the four great scriptures. In the fifth year of Xianping, he returned to Dongshan; in his later years, he moved to Tianzhu, broadly propagating the Dharma transformation, and ended his days in secluded retreat there. While the master resided at Baoyun, there were four miraculous events.