佛祖統紀 15.62

15.62

法師法久。餘姚邵氏。受業龍泉。十五試蓮經中選得度。初依智涌於廣嚴。後去從慧覺。赴天竺。師隨往。旦夜為學卒成其業。大慧居徑山。往咨心要。嘗令師舉境觀之旨。必擊節歎賞。有王侍御女早喪。每附語令請高僧誦法華。大慧令師往方升座演經。侍御忽有感悟。夜中亡女夢於父曰。承法師講經力已得生處。侍御因作一乘感應記。大慧一日謂師曰。教苑人稀宜勉力弘傳以光祖道。師遂歸。既而慈溪羅氏。以圓湛菴延之。學者四集共仰師法。紹興十三年。郡命居清修。泉清石潔人境俱勝。常患後生單寮多弊。乃闢眾堂作連床蒲褥如禪林之規。以身率先眾莫敢怠。說法機辯有大慧之風。有不能領者。謂師談禪於教苑。寺左曰師子巖。創一堂名無畏。日住其中誦法華楞嚴七經。十九年不輟。一日忽告眾。無疾而化。塔於寺西。雪溪晞顏為撰銘。門人妙雲繼主其席。

Dharma Master Fajiu was of the Shao clan from Yuyao. He received his training at Longquan. At the age of fifteen, he passed the examination on the *Lotus Sūtra* and was ordained. He first relied on Zhiyong at Guangyan, and later went to follow Huijue. When Huijue went to Tianzhu, the Master followed him, studying day and night until he finally accomplished his training. When Dahui was residing at Jingshan, the Master went to consult him on the essentials of the mind. Whenever Dahui had the Master explain the purport of the objects and contemplation, he would invariably click his tongue in admiration. An Investigating Censor named Wang had a daughter who died young; through spirit-possession she repeatedly requested an eminent monk to be invited to recite the *Lotus Sūtra*. Dahui had the Master go. Just as he ascended the seat to expound the scripture, the Censor suddenly had an awakening. That night, his deceased daughter appeared to her father in a dream and said: 'Relying on the power of the Dharma Master's exposition of the scripture, I have already obtained rebirth.' The Censor thereupon composed the *Record of Resonant Response to the One Vehicle*. Dahui said to the Master one day: 'People are sparse in the garden of teachings; you should strive to propagate it widely to glorify the ancestral path.' The Master then returned. Soon after, the Luo family of Cixi invited him to the Yuanzhan Hermitage. Scholars gathered from all four directions, all revering the Master's method. In the thirteenth year of the Shaoxing reign era, the commandery appointed him to preside over Qingsxiu. The springs were clear and the rocks clean; both the people and the environment were superior. He was constantly distressed by the many faults of the junior monks living in individual cells, so he opened a communal hall and laid out connected beds with cattail mats in the manner of the Chan groves. Leading the community by his own example, none dared to be indolent. His responsive eloquence in preaching the Dharma possessed the style of Dahui. Some who failed to comprehend him claimed that the Master was discussing Chan in the garden of doctrinal teachings. To the left of the monastery was the Lion Cliff; he founded a hall there named Fearlessness. Daily he resided within it reciting the seven scriptures including the *Lotus Sūtra* and the *Śūraṅgama-sūtra*, not ceasing for nineteen years. One day, he suddenly notified the assembly and passed away without illness. A stupa was built to the west of the monastery. Xuexi Xiyan composed the inscription for him. His disciple Miaoyun succeeded him in the seat.