四明尊者教行錄 7.35

7.35

Master Tong manifested extinction in the first year of the Duanhong reign of Emperor Zhenzong. Guan means to pierce through. Huan is pronounced huan and comes from the Zuo zhuan. It says there: 'Wearing armor and holding weapons.' Huan jia means wearing armor. Discussing the form of this dream, it was that Siming pierced Tong's head with his right hand and walked along carrying Tong with his left arm. This was indeed a miraculous dream. Xi is an exclamation of sighing. The Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra explains that Ānanda attended the Buddha and retained the twelve divisions of scriptures, just like pouring water from one vase into a different vessel. The two characters 'seed-wisdom' (sarvākārajñatā) are concise in wording yet rich in meaning, referring to sarvajñā (all-knowledge), mārgajñatā (knowledge of the paths), and sarvākārajñatā (all-aspect knowledge). These three wisdoms in a single mind originally derive from the Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra. The Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra explains them, as seen in fascicle thirty. In the past, the master of Northern Qi relied on this to practice mind-contemplation and orally transmitted it to Nanyue; Nanyue transmitted it to Tiantai. After Tiantai, it was transmitted through thirteen generations until it reached Siming. Indeed, the essential Dharma of our school's transmission consists solely in this.