佛祖統紀 10.45
佛祖統紀 10.45
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10.45
禪師行滿。萬州南浦人。首造石霜學禪法。後住天台。聽荊溪說止觀頓悟妙旨。因棲止華頂峯下智者院充茶頭。夜臥土床。燒糞掃以煖其下。脫衣就床。蚤蝨群唼。或捫其衣。寂無有也。所居檻外大松上有寄生小樹。遇師出坐必嫋嫋低俯。時謂此樹為茶頭作禮(嫋而酌反長也)師於四十年間未嘗便溺。或謂大士現身。受食而實不食。故致此也。開寶中。預告人曰。我且行矣。即請眾誦文殊號。泊然而化。年八十八。嘗著涅槃疏。禪師法顒。於毘陵建安寺築止觀堂。請荊溪講說其中。梁肅為作止觀堂記。
Chan Master Xingman was a native of Nanpu in Wanzhou. First he went to Shishuang to study Chan teachings. Later he resided at Tiantai, listening to Jingxi expound the wonderful principles of Calm-and-Insight, and sudden realization. He then took up residence at the Zhiyi Cloister beneath Huading Peak, serving as the tea attendant. At night he slept on an earthen bed, burning sweepings and dung to warm it from below. When he took off his clothes and lay in bed, swarms of fleas and lice bit him, but when one felt for them in his clothes, there was utter emptiness. Outside the railing of his residence, there was a small parasitic tree growing upon a large pine tree; whenever the master went out to sit, it would gently bow low. People at that time said that this tree was bowing to the tea attendant. Over the course of forty years, the master never once urinated or defecated; some said he was a great bodhisattva manifested in the flesh who received food without truly eating, and thus it was so. During the Kaibao era, he told people in advance: "I am about to depart." He then requested the assembly to chant the name of Mañjuśrī, and serenely transformed [passed away] at the age of eighty-eight. He once composed a commentary on the Nirvāṇa [Sūtra]. Chan Master Fayong constructed a Calm-and-Insight Hall at Jian'an Temple in Piling and invited Jingxi to lecture therein; Liang Su composed the "Record of the Calm-and-Insight Hall" for him.
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