四明尊者教行錄 7.258

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紹熈辛亥歲，住山瑩講師建大法堂，廣袤宏曠，殆甲諸方。是時竹院禪師曇公謁是院，因請立名。師應聲曰：院額寶雲。雲能致雨，雨能潤物。茲院乃台宗中興發源處，佛祖雨法雨沃群生非一日，當以法雨為堂之名。宜矣。宗曉深愛此名因依，而山門未暇揭是榜，恐久而堙沒，特表而出之。經不云乎：慈意妙大雲，澍甘露法雨。又曰：無上法雨，雨汝身田。又曰：能雨無上甘露法雨。法雨之名遍出諸大乘經。今吾祖通公大法師，負高明之識，來自三韓；得淨光法道，殆於此地洪通。四明、天竺二尊者，蟠英蓄秀，能荷傳斯宗。迄今垂二百載，其道未艾，此非雨法雨沃群生乎。昔楊無為甞贊宗門陳尊宿曰：叢林處處蒙霑潤，莫測風雷起老龍。今於寶雲通公亦云也。

In the xinhai year of the Shaoxi reign period, Lecturer Ying, the abbot of the mountain, built a great Dharma hall, so vast and spacious that it was almost foremost in all quarters. At that time, Chan Master Tan of the Bamboo Monastery visited this cloister, and was consequently requested to bestow a name upon it. The master answered on the spot: 'The plaque of the cloister reads "Baoyun" (Treasure Cloud). Clouds can produce rain, and rain can moisten things. This cloister is the source of the Tiantai school's revival; that the Buddhas and patriarchs have rained the Dharma rain to moisten all living beings is not a matter of a single day. You ought to name the hall "Dharma Rain" (Fayu). That is fitting.' I, Zongxiao, deeply cherish the rationale behind this name; but as the monastery has not yet had leisure to put up this plaque, and fearing that in time it would fall into oblivion, I have specifically made it known. Do not the sūtras say: 'The wondrous great cloud of merciful intent pours down the amṛta Dharma rain'? And again say: 'The unsurpassed Dharma rain rains upon the field of your body'? And again say: 'Able to rain the unsurpassed amṛta Dharma rain'? The name 'Dharma Rain' appears throughout the Mahāyāna sūtras. Now our ancestral Great Dharma Master Tong, endowed with lofty and brilliant discernment, came from Samhan; he obtained the Dharma teaching of Jingguang and caused it to flourish widely here. The two venerable ones, Siming and Tianzhu, gathering talent and harboring excellence, were able to shoulder and transmit this school. Down to the present it has been nearly two hundred years, and its way has not waned; is this not raining the Dharma rain to moisten all living beings? Long ago, Yang Wuwei once praised the Chan master Chen Zunsu, saying: 'Everywhere in the monasteries they receive the moistening; none can fathom the wind and thunder rising from the old dragon.' Now, regarding Master Tong of Baoyun, the same may be said.