[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 12.15 # 佛祖統紀 12.15 佛祖統紀 12.15 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.12.15) 法師慧才。永嘉樂清王氏。師白鶴山怡芳。祥符覃恩得度（真宗封泰山。詔寺觀各度一人）年十三。進受具戒。往學於四明。性識昏鈍。常持大悲呪。願學通祖道。忽於夢中。見梵僧長數丈。脫袈裟與披之呼曰。慧才盡生記吾。翌日臨講豁然開悟。前後所聞一時洞曉。未幾首眾四座推服。復謁慈雲。北面服勤旦夜不替。治平初。杭守沈遘。講住法慧寶閣。二十年始終一節。太尉盧公奏賜廣慈之號。浮石來請勉狥眾意。未久退居雷峯塔下。每翹足誦大悲百八為課。又翹足一晝夜誦彌陀號。一夕夢至寶樓宮闕。有告之者曰。淨土中品汝所生也。元豐元年春。緇素萬指求授大戒。至羯磨時。觀音像頂放光輝映講堂。淨慈守一禪師為作戒光記。六年五月二十一日。更衣就座。書偈讚佛曰。吾生淨土決矣。泊然而化。塔於菴之右。壽八十六。臘七十三。繼其業者。法宗戒珠十人。師貌古而性恬。少言寡欲。時教門異論諠動江浙。師獨循循講訓未嘗有所臧否。清獻趙公道交最密。及鎮越寄以詩曰。乞得鄉邦樂矣哉。雷峯菴靜此徘徊。浙江莫謂音書隔。一日潮聲兩度來。 > Dharma Master Huicai came from the Wang family of Leqing in Yongjia. He studied under Yifang of Mount Baihe. In the Xiangfu era, through imperial favor he was ordained. (When Zhenzong performed the Feng sacrifice on Mount Tai, an edict ordered every temple and monastery to ordain one person.) At the age of thirteen, he advanced to receive the full precepts. He went to study at Siming. His faculties were dull and slow, so he constantly recited the Great Compassion Dhāraṇī, vowing to master the ancestral path. Suddenly in a dream, he saw a foreign monk several tens of feet tall, who took off his kāṣāya, draped it over him, and called out: 'Huicai, remember me for the rest of your life!' The next day, when attending the lecture, he was thoroughly enlightened; all that he had heard before and after was understood in a single instant. Before long, he became the head of the assembly, and the four seats respected and submitted to him. He then visited Ciyun, serving him reverently with diligent morning-and-night devotion without cease. In the beginning of the Zhiping era, Shen Gou, the prefect of Hangzhou, invited him to dwell at the Treasure Pavilion of Fahui. For twenty years, his integrity remained unbroken from beginning to end. Grand Commandant Duke Lu memorialized to grant him the title Guangci ('Broad Compassion'). Fushi came to request him \[to teach\], and he yielded to the community's wishes. Not long after, he retired to the foot of Leifeng Pagoda. Standing on one foot, he recited the Great Compassion Dhāraṇī one hundred and eight times as his daily practice. Also, standing on one foot for a day and a night, he recited the name of Amitābha. One evening, he dreamed of reaching a jeweled palace and towers, and someone told him: 'The middle grade of the Pure Land is where you shall be born.' In the spring of the first year of Yuanfeng, ten thousand monastics and laypeople sought to receive the great precepts. At the time of the \*karmavācanā\*, the crown of the Avalokiteśvara statue emitted a radiant light illuminating the lecture hall. Chan Master Shouyi of Jingci composed the 'Record of the Precept Light' for the occasion. On the twenty-first day of the fifth month of the sixth year, he changed his clothes, took his seat, wrote a verse praising the Buddha, and said: 'My rebirth in the Pure Land is certain.' Calmly he passed away. A stupa was erected to the right of the hermitage. He lived to eighty-six, with seventy-three years as a monk. Ten disciples succeeded to his lineage, including Fazong and Jiezhu. The Master had an ancient appearance and a tranquil nature, speaking little and having few desires. At that time, divergent doctrinal debates agitated Jiangnan and Zhejiang, yet the Master alone taught patiently and methodically, never passing judgment. Duke Zhao Qingxian had the closest spiritual friendship with him. When stationed in Yue, he sent him a poem: 'Having obtained leave to return to the homeland, how joyful! / By Leifeng hermitage in quietude you wander to and fro. / Do not say the Zhejiang river separates our letters; / In a single day, the sound of the tide comes twice.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.12.14) - [Next: 12.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.12.16) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.12.15) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.12.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.12.15) · Pramāṇa