鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.8

1.8

Now, the Great Chan Master Xuetang is an eighteenth-generation direct descendant of Linji and the tenth-generation direct lineage of Langye; honored by princes and ministers, admired by both monastic and lay, he is indeed a dragon-elephant among the saṅgha. Not forgetting the ancestral master's kindness and virtue, he constantly regretted that Linji's single words and single phrases, single sticks and single shouts, inquiries and resolutions, and the recorded sayings from entering the room and ascending the hall had not been widely illuminated; so he carved them onto blocks to circulate them and broaden the sight and hearing of the chan grove, further requesting the North Mountain Layman Guo Tianxi to write a preface.