龍舒增廣淨土文 11.14

11.14

居士平昔以淨土之說懇切勸人，嘗盤桓於鄉里。允迪於是時年方二十餘，適預計偕東上，且未知有佛法，弗獲識公面。迨犬馬之齒，至三十連嬰災患，殊覺人生沈淪於煩惱大苦海中渺無邊岸，遂一意祖襲居士之說為超脫計。如是者纔三數年，居士遂立化於廬陵郡，郡之人皆繪像以事之。蓋乾道癸巳之正月也。後五年丁酉歲，先兄知府兵部被檄較試廬陵，得所刻本以歸，（允迪）恐此一段奇事久之湮沒、無以傳遠，遂刻諸石，寘城北報恩寺之阿彌殿。今此願施居士所著淨土文一萬帙，輒復以居士慈相及丞相周益公而下贊述附于卷首，皆襲廬陵刻本也。庶幾見者聞者增益信心、勉強精進，則西方淨土誠不難到。嘉泰癸亥文林即新監湖廣總領所襄陽府戶部大軍倉旴江聶允迪合十指爪稽首謹跋。

The layman throughout his life earnestly exhorted people with the teachings of the Pure Land, and once resided for a time in my home region. At that time, I, Yundi, was just in my twenties; I happened to be traveling east for the civil examinations and did not yet know of the Buddha Dharma, so I was not able to meet him in person. When I reached the age of thirty, disasters and misfortunes befell me in succession, and I profoundly felt that human life sinks into the great ocean of the suffering of afflictions without any shore in sight. Thereupon, I single-mindedly adopted the layman's teachings as a scheme for transcendence and liberation. After only two or three years of this, the layman passed away standing in Luling Commandery, and the people of the commandery all painted portraits to serve him. This was in the first month of the guisi year of Qiandao. Five years later, in the dingyou year, my late elder brother, the prefectural governor and Ministry of War official, was commissioned to conduct examinations in Luling and obtained the carved edition, which he brought back. I, Yundi, feared that this extraordinary matter would be lost over time with no way to transmit it far and wide; so I carved it on stone and placed it in the Amitābha Hall of Bao'en Temple north of the city. Now, having vowed to donate ten thousand copies of the *Pure Land Writings* authored by the layman, I have furthermore appended the layman's compassionate likeness and the panegyrics from Grand Councillor Duke Zhou Yiguo on down to the beginning of the fascicles, all following the Luling carved edition. May those who see and hear it increase their faithful mind, exert themselves, and make energetic progress, so that the Western Pure Land will truly not be difficult to reach. Reverently appended with palms joined and head bowed by Nie Yundi of Xujiang, Court Gentleman for Culture, newly appointed Superintendent of the Military Granary of the Ministry of Revenue in Xiangyang Prefecture under the Huguang General Directorate, in the guihai year of Jiatai.