人天眼目 1.5

1.5

師諱義玄。曹州南華人也。俗姓邢。幼而頴異。長以孝聞。及落髮受具。居於講肆。精究毘尼。博賾經論。俄歎曰。此濟世醫方也。非教外別傳之旨。即更衣遊方。首參黃蘗。次謁大愚。其機緣語句。載於行錄。既受黃蘗印可。尋抵河北鎮州城東南隅。臨滹沱河側。小院住持。其臨濟因地得名。唐咸通八年丁亥四月十日。攝衣據坐與三聖問答畢。寂然而逝。門人以師全身。建塔於大名府西北隅。勅諡慧照禪師。塔號澄靈。

The Master's taboo name was Yixuan. He was a native of Nanhua in Caozhou, with the secular surname Xing. As a youth he was remarkably gifted, and when grown he was renowned for his filial piety. When he shaved his head and received the full precepts, he resided in lecture halls, meticulously investigating the Vinaya and broadly probing the sūtras and treatises. Presently he sighed, saying: 'These are medicinal formulas for rescuing the world, not the essential tenets of the special transmission outside the teachings.' Thereupon he changed his robes and travelled on pilgrimage. First he visited Huangbo, and next called upon Dayu. His dynamic encounters and sayings are recorded in his biographical record. Having received Huangbo's seal of approval, he soon arrived at the southeastern corner of the city of Zhenzhou in Hebei, by the banks of the Hutuo River, serving as abbot of a small monastery. Linji took its name from this location. On the tenth day of the fourth month in the dinghai year, the eighth year of the Xiantong era of the Tang dynasty [867 CE], having gathered his robes and sat down, upon completing his dialogue with Sansheng, he quietly passed away. His disciples built a stupa for the Master's entire body at the northwestern corner of Daming Prefecture. An imperial decree bestowed the posthumous title 'Dhyāna Master Huizhao', and his stupa was named Chengling.