佛祖統紀 15.59

15.59

法師可觀。字宜翁。華亭戚氏。年十六具戒。依南屏精微。師聞車溪聲振江浙。負笈從之。一日聞舉唱曰。般若寂寥。忽有悟入。如服一杯降氣湯。玉慧覺有橫山命。師偕行讀指要。至若不謂實鐵床非苦變易非遷。歎曰。語言文字皆穅秕耳。建炎初主嘉禾壽聖。遷當湖德藏。居閱世堂。為楞嚴補注。以祥符延閃兩載。以疾反當湖南林。一室蕭然人不堪之。則曰。松風山月。此我無盡衣鉢也。乾道七年。丞相魏杞出鎮姑蘇。請主北禪。入門適當九日。指座云胸中一寸灰已冷。頭上千莖雪未消。老步只宜平地去。不知何事又登高。魏公擊節不已。及得所遺法語謝曰。當日卷卷斯道。不敢孤負竹菴。淳熙七年。皇子魏王牧四明（諱愷諡惠憲王孝宗次子）用月堂遺書之薦。請主延慶。時已八十九歲。抵行在所而聞王薨師在天竺受請曰。王旨如生。豈當有辭。遂行至南湖眾見行李寂寂莫不歎服。不二載復歸當湖竹菴。九年二月十九無疾而逝。壽九十一。荼毘舌根不壞舍利莫知其算。塔德藏之觀堂。師五住當湖。皆退隱於竹菴。因以為目。杲大慧自徑山行化。來訪當湖對語終日。敬之曰教海老龍也。師見齋房安像即誡之曰。汝起居無禮說無益語。少時焚香之敬。不補終日媟嫚之罪也。著楞嚴說題集解。補注共四卷。蘭盆補注二卷。金剛通論事說各一卷。圓覺手鑑。竹菴錄各一卷。山家義苑二卷。

Dharma Master Keguang was styled Yiweng and came from the Qi clan of Huating. At age sixteen, he received full ordination. He relied on Nanping Jingwei. When the master heard that Chexi's renown resounded throughout Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he carried his book-box and followed him. One day, hearing him chant, 'Prajñā is tranquil and solitary,' he suddenly had an awakening, as if drinking a cup of qi-descending decoction. Yu Huijue was appointed to Hengshan; the master accompanied him, reading the Zhiyao. When he came to the passage, 'If one does not consider it real, the iron bed is not painful and transformation is not migration,' he sighed and said, 'Words and letters are merely chaff!' At the beginning of the Jianyan era, he presided over Shousheng in Jiahe, then moved to Dezang in Danghu, residing in the Yueshi Hall, where he composed supplementary annotations to the Śūraṅgama Sūtra. Because Xiangfu Yan fell ill for two years, the master returned to the Nanlin of Danghu due to illness. His single room was stark and deserted, which others found unbearable, yet he said, 'The pines in the wind and the moon on the mountain—these are my inexhaustible robes and bowl.' In the seventh year of Qiandao, Grand Councilor Wei Qi went out to govern Gusu and invited the master to preside over Beichan. Arriving at the gate on the Double Ninth day, he pointed to the seat and said: 'In my breast, an inch of ash is already cold; / Upon my head, a thousand strands of snow have not yet thawed. / An old step should only go on level ground; / Why, I wonder, must I climb high once more?' Lord Wei clapped in admiration without pause. When he received the Dharma words left by him, he expressed gratitude, saying, 'In those days, I was devoted to this Way; I dared not disappoint the Bamboo Hermitage.' In the seventh year of Chunxi, the imperial prince, Prince of Wei (named Kai, posthumously styled Prince Huixian, the second son of Emperor Xiaozong), governed Siming and, acting upon the recommendation of the late Yuetang's testament, invited him to preside over Yanqing. At that time, he was already eighty-nine years old. Upon reaching the temporary capital, he heard that the prince had passed away. While at Tianzhu, the master had accepted the invitation, saying, 'The prince's decree is as if he were alive; how could I decline?' He thereupon proceeded to Nanhu; when the assembly saw his sparse baggage, there was none who did not sigh in admiration. In less than two years, he returned again to the Bamboo Hermitage of Danghu. On the nineteenth day of the second month of the ninth year, he passed away without illness at the age of ninety-one. When he was cremated, his tongue remained intact, and his relics were beyond counting. A stūpa was erected at the Contemplation Hall of Dezang. The master had resided five times at Danghu, each time retiring to the Bamboo Hermitage, and thus took it as his appellation. When Dahui Zonggao was traveling and transforming from Jingshan, he visited Danghu and conversed with him all day, revering him and saying, 'He is an old dragon in the ocean of doctrine.' When the master saw Buddha images placed in living quarters, he would admonish: 'Your conduct is disrespectful and you speak unprofitable words. The reverence of burning incense for a brief moment does not compensate for a whole day of frivolous irreverence.' He authored the Lengyan shuoti jijie with supplementary annotations in four scrolls, supplementary annotations to the Lanpen [jing] in two scrolls, the Jingang tonglun and its Shishuo each in one scroll, the Yuanjue shoujian, the Zhu'an lu each in one scroll, and the Shanjia yiyuan in two scrolls.