佛祖統紀 10.25

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禪師弘景。富陽文氏。貞觀二十二年。於玉泉奉勅得度。依章安稟受止觀。常誦法華。蒙普賢示身證明。天童奉侍左右。後於寺南十里別立精舍曰龍興。天后證聖元年。詔同實叉難陀等譯華嚴。自天后至中宗。凡三詔。入宮供養為受戒師。後乞還山。帝勅於林光宮。同天下名僧二十人修福置齋。帝親賦詩。令中書令李嶠等應和以為贈。師捧詩長揖振錫而行。天下榮之。

Dhyāna Master Hongjing was from the Wen clan of Fuyang. In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, he was ordained by imperial order at Yuquan [Monastery]. Relying on Zhang'an, he received the teachings on Cessation and Contemplation (śamatha-vipaśyanā). He constantly chanted the Lotus Sūtra and was favored with Samantabhadra manifesting his form to bear witness, while divine boys waited upon him on both sides. Later, ten li south of the monastery, he separately established a hermitage called Longxing. In the first year of the Zhengsheng era of the Heavenly Empress, an imperial decree summoned him to translate the Avataṃsaka Sūtra together with Śikṣānanda and others. From the Heavenly Empress through Emperor Zhongzong, he received imperial summonses three times in all, entering the palace to receive offerings and serve as ordination master. Later he begged to return to the mountains. The Emperor decreed that at Linguang Palace, together with twenty eminent monks from throughout the realm, blessings be cultivated and a vegetarian feast held. The Emperor personally composed a poem, ordering Secretariat Director Li Qiao and others to compose matching verses as parting gifts. The Master received the poems, bowed deeply with hands clasped, shook his khakkhara, and departed. The whole empire held him in honor.