佛祖統紀 15.46

15.46

陳瓘。字瑩中。南劍人。自號了翁。幼登甲科官至正言。親亡之日。廬墓三年。天降甘露。有芝草生於冢上。嘗留意禪宗頗有省發。觀華嚴了法界之旨。因上疏論宰相章惇。謫四明。日與明智會。因問天台宗旨。明智舉止觀不思議境。示以性奪修成無作行之義。公曰。乃知此宗性本現成。又問。現前色身如何觀察。明智曰。法本不生今則無滅。公曰。世人言。其死如歸。不知如歸。乃失家者。自是深達境智之妙。作三千有門頌以示明智。智可之（文見名文光教志）晚年刻意西歸。為明智作觀堂淨土院記。發揮寂光淨土之旨。宗門韙其說（石刻南湖觀堂）公既貶。諸子皆白衣未嘗懷不滿意。宣和六年冬。無疾別家人而逝。紹興中。贈諫議大夫。諡忠肅。

Chen Guan, styled Yingzhong, was a native of Nanjian, and styled himself Liaoweng. In his youth he passed the first-tier jinshi examination and reached the office of Remonstrator. When his parents died, he dwelled in a hut by their grave for three years; heaven rained down amṛta, and lingzhi mushrooms grew on the tumulus. He once paid close attention to the Chan school and had considerable awakening and inspiration, and contemplated the Avataṃsaka to understand the purport of the dharmadhātu. Because he submitted a memorial criticizing Prime Minister Zhang Dun, he was demoted to Siming. He met daily with Mingzhi, and on one occasion asked about the core purport of Tiantai. Mingzhi brought up the inconceivable realm of the Zhiguan, showing him the meaning that innate nature overrides cultivation and accomplishes unconditioned practice. The lord said, 'Now I know that this school's innate nature is originally fully accomplished.' He further asked, 'How should this present physical body be contemplated?' Mingzhi said, 'Phenomena originally are unproduced; now, therefore, they are undying.' The lord said, 'Worldly people say, "His dying is like returning home"; they do not realize that "like returning home" means losing one's home.' From then on, he profoundly grasped the wondrous harmony of realm and wisdom. He composed the Verse on the Existence Gate of Three Thousand to present to Mingzhi, and Mingzhi approved of it (the text appears in the Mingwen Guangjiao zhi). In his later years, he devoted his mind to returning to the West, and composed for Mingzhi the Record of the Contemplation Hall Pure Land Cloister, expounding the purport of the Pure Land of Tranquil Light. The school affirmed his exposition (inscribed in stone at the Nanhu Contemplation Hall). After the lord was demoted, his sons all remained commoners, yet he never harbored resentment. In the winter of the sixth year of the Xuanhe era, without illness, he bid farewell to his family and passed away. During the Shaoxing era, he was posthumously granted the title Grand Master of Remonstrance, with the posthumous name Zhongsusu.