佛祖統紀 15.70

15.70

法師思梵。杭之臨平湛氏。賜號圓通。依淨社普明學教觀盡通其旨。久之擢居座首。普明遷覺悟。師與偕行。及再遷上竺。謂師曰。覺悟之席無以易子。行道十年大振法道。後退處西山歸雲菴。杜門著書。嘗以經疏語錄。商確禪教之旨。名曰會宗。侍郎晁公武。一見契心。為之序曰。予聞世父景迂先生之言曰（晁說之號景迂）浙江東西有天台之學。通其說者無禪教之病。可以為人天眼目。小子識之。自予聞此三終星矣。今見會宗之所述。其有合於世父景迂之言乎。師平生以戒法力。夢寐嘗與聖賢接。凡禬禳災凶。驅逐妖厲。一為說戒無不通感。乾道四年五月。有星者謂師曰。六月之望師其亡乎。師笑曰。造物焉能制我耶。汝謂六月亡。我且八月往。至期沐浴更衣趺坐龕中。召眾誦佛瞑目而化。塔於方丈之室。

Dharma Master Sifan was from the Zhan family of Linping in Hangzhou. He was granted the title Yuantong. He relied upon Puming of Jingshe to study teaching and contemplation, thoroughly mastering their purports. In time he was promoted to head of the hall. When Puming moved to Juewu, the Master accompanied him. When [Puming] again moved to Upper Tianzhu, he said to the Master, 'There is no one to replace you in the seat at Juewu.' He practiced the Way for ten years, greatly promoting the path of the Dharma. Later he retired to Guiyun Hermitage on West Mountain, shutting his doors to compose writings. He once used sutras, commentaries, and recorded sayings to assess and compare the purports of Chan and the scriptural teachings, entitling it *Huizong* (Reconciliation of the Tenets). Vice Minister Chao Gongwu hit upon an accord with it at first sight and wrote a preface for it, saying, 'I heard the words of my paternal uncle, Mr. Jingyu (Chao Shuozhi, whose style was Jingyu): "East and west of the Zhe River there is the Tiantai learning. Those who master its teachings will have none of the flaws of Chan or the scriptural teachings, and can serve as eyes for humans and devas. Young man, remember this!" Three Jupiter cycles have passed since I heard this. Now seeing what is set forth in *Huizong*, does it not truly accord with the words of my paternal uncle Jingyu?' Throughout his life, by the power of the Dharma of precepts, the Master often met sages and worthies in dreams. Whenever he conducted expiations and prayers against calamities or exorcised demons and baleful spirits, as soon as he spoke the precepts for them, there was none that did not respond in communion. In the fifth month of the fourth year of Qiandao, an astrologer said to the Master, 'On the full moon of the sixth month, will the Master not pass away?' The Master smiled and said, 'How could the creator of things constrain me? You say I will die in the sixth month; I shall depart in the eighth month.' When the time came, he bathed, changed his clothes, sat cross-legged in the niche, called the assembly to recite the Buddha's name, closed his eyes, and transformed. A stūpa was erected for him in the abbot's quarters.