佛祖統紀 15.40

15.40

法師覺先。四明之慈溪陳氏。號澄照。七歲受經一讀成誦。初稟教於明智。既得其傳。復請益於慈辯清辯。所詣益深。靖康初主奉化之寶林。會奉旱邑請講金光明。終卷而雨三日。因勉邑人建光明幢。誦經萬部為邑境之護。遷主延慶大弘宗教。久之復歸寶林。築室曰妙蓮。復誦滿萬部。持淨土佛號。四十八藏。摘經疏名言以資觀行。目曰心要。紹興十六年正月十四日。說法安坐而逝。塔於寢室之側。他日有夜聞誦經聲。迹所自出塔中。後月堂居南湖。謂師於延慶有傳持之功。而塔在草莽。乃令遷之祖壟。及開土見栓索不朽。骨若青銅（栓山圓反木丁）。

Dharma Master Juexian was surnamed Chen, from Cixi in Siming, and was styled Chengzhao. At the age of seven, upon receiving the scriptures, he could recite them after a single reading. He initially received instruction under Mingzhi. Having obtained his transmission, he further sought instruction from Cibian and Qingbian, and his attainment grew ever deeper. At the beginning of the Jingkang era, he took charge of Baolin in Fenghua. It happened that the county suffered a drought, and he was requested to lecture on the Suvarṇaprabhāsa-sūtra; when the roll was concluded, it rained for three days. Thereupon, he encouraged the townspeople to erect a dhāraṇī pillar of the Suvarṇaprabhāsa and recite ten thousand fascicles of the scripture to serve as a protection for the county borders. He moved to take charge of Yanqing, where he vastly propagated the teachings of the school. After a long time, he returned again to Baolin, building a chamber called Miaolian (Wondrous Lotus). He again recited a full ten thousand fascicles, maintained the Pure Land Buddha-name through forty-eight [recitations of the] canon, and selected notable sayings from scriptures and commentaries to aid contemplation and practice, entitling [the collection] Xinyao (Mind Essentials). On the fourteenth day of the first month in the sixteenth year of the Shaoxing era, he expounded the Dharma, sat peacefully, and passed away. A stūpa was built for him beside his sleeping quarters. On another day, the sound of chanting scriptures was heard at night; tracing its origin, it came from within the stūpa. Later, when Yuetang resided at Nanhu, he considered that the master had the merit of transmitting and maintaining [the lineage] at Yanqing, yet his stūpa lay amid wild weeds; he thereupon ordered it moved to the ancestral burial mound. When the earth was opened, they saw that the pegs and ropes had not decayed, and his bones were like bronze (shuan [pegs]: fan-切 for shān and yuán, meaning wooden pegs).