勅修百丈清規 3.56

3.56

凡官員檀越諸山相送入院者。禮應報謝。郡縣官府亦合參見。如居山林遠出。令行者傳語庫司首座維那知會。出久則知事探伺歸期。令堂司掛接呼尚牌報眾。鳴鍾門迎。住持先令傳語免之。即往佛殿土地堂燒香。首座領眾至方丈問訊。眾退留兩序勤舊。獻湯而散。侍者方丈執局行者插香禮拜。次參頭領眾行者禮拜畢。住持須巡寮報禮。若在城附郭朝莫出入無時。不必講行。或蜜回方丈。兩序勤舊皆當詣方丈問起居。無準和尚住徑山日。化緣多出入。每闞齋粥時。徑歸僧堂。伴眾食畢。方丈客頭候聖僧侍者鳴下堂椎。大眾將下地。喝云（大眾少立方丈和尚巡堂）住持燒香巡堂一匝出堂。又喝云（和尚傳語大眾不煩訪及）兩序勤舊亦當詣方丈問訊。

Whenever officials, donors, and monks from various monasteries have escorted the abbot into the monastery, etiquette requires that he pay visits of thanks. He should also pay courtesy calls on the local commandery and county government offices. If he resides in a forest monastery and travels far, he orders a postulant to convey word to notify the monastery storehouse, the head seat, and the karmadāna. If he has been away for a long time, the administrators inquire and look out for his return date, ordering the hall office to hang the board for welcoming the upādhyāya to notify the assembly. The bell is sounded, and they welcome him at the gate. The abbot sends word beforehand to dispense with this. He proceeds immediately to burn incense at the Buddha hall and the earth spirits hall. The head seat leads the assembly to the abbot's quarters to greet him with folded hands. The assembly withdraws, and the two ranks and retired officers are retained; after hot tonic is served, they disperse. The attendants and the duty postulants of the abbot's quarters insert incense and make prostrations. Next, the head postulant leads the postulants to make prostrations. When finished, the abbot must make rounds of the dormitories to return the courtesy. If the monastery is in a city or adjacent to the suburbs, where comings and goings in the morning and evening have no set time, these rites need not be carried out. Or, if he returns quietly to the abbot's quarters, the two ranks and retired officers should all go to the abbot's quarters to inquire after his health. When Upādhyāya Wuzhun resided at Mount Jingshan, his fundraising tasks entailed frequent comings and goings. Whenever he caught the time of the noon meal or morning congee, he went straight back to the Sangha hall. Having eaten alongside the assembly, the abbot's quarters guest prefect waited until the sacred monk's attendant struck the gavel for leaving the hall; as the assembly was about to step down from the platforms, he called out: "Assembly, please stand for a moment while the upādhyāya of the abbot's quarters inspects the hall." The abbot burned incense, made one circuit around the hall, and left the hall. The guest prefect called out again: "The upādhyāya conveys word that the assembly need not trouble themselves to visit him." The two ranks and retired officers should likewise go to the abbot's quarters to greet him with folded hands.