佛祖統紀 45.32

45.32

九年。歐陽修知頴州。官妓盧媚善談笑。口作蓮華香。有蜀沙門知人前事。修以問之。僧曰。此女前為尼誦法華三十年。一念之差遂至於此。修問妓曰。曾讀法華經否。妓曰。失身於此何能讀經。修令左右教之。一聞即誦。經他經則不能（遯齋閑覽）皇祐元年。詔再建靈感塔奉藏舍利（慶歷四年災毀故重建）○勅中使往陳留入關寺迎佛指舍利。或以為偽。上命試以烈火擊以金椎。了無所損。俄而舍利流迸光照西方。上曰功德。欲歸闡教乎。乃以水晶寶匣盛之。御製發願文。奉迎歸寺。初是陳留邑人為沙門義津建寺請額為闡教。俄有梵僧至曰。我自天竺携佛指舍利。欲求吉祥處奉安。非師不能護。施之而去。既而瑞光屢發。祈禱頻應（𮈬傑撰碑）○自周朝毀寺。建隆興復。京師兩街。唯南山律部。賢首慈恩義學而已。士夫聰明超軼者。皆厭聞名相之談。而天台止觀達磨禪宗未之能行。淳化以來四明天竺行道。東南觀心宗眼。照映天下。楊億晁逈有以發之。真宗嘉獎錫以法智慈雲之號。雖一時朝野為之景慕。而終未能行其說於京邑。至是內侍李允寧奏。以汴京第宅創興禪席。因賜額為十方淨因。上方留意空宗。詔求有道者居之。歐陽修等請以圓通居訥應命。訥以疾辭。因舉懷璉以為代（歐陽外傳）。

In the ninth year, Ouyang Xiu was Prefect of Yingzhou. The official courtesan Lu Mei was skilled at witty conversation, and her mouth emitted the fragrance of lotus flowers. There was a śramaṇa from Shu who knew people's past lives. Xiu asked him about her. The monk said: "In her past life, this woman was a nun who recited the *Lotus Sūtra* for thirty years. Through a single errant thought, she ended up like this." Xiu asked the courtesan: "Have you ever read the *Lotus Sūtra*?" The courtesan said: "Having lost myself in this place, how could I read sūtras?" Xiu ordered his attendants to teach her; hearing it once, she immediately recited it. When she attempted other scriptures, she was unable to do so (*Dunzhai xianlan*). In the first year of Huangyou, an imperial edict ordered the reconstruction of the Linggan Stūpa to enshrine the relics (it had been rebuilt because it was destroyed by fire in the fourth year of Qingli). ○ An imperial edict dispatched an inner palace envoy to Ruguansi in Chenliu to welcome the Buddha's finger-bone relic. Some thought it was a counterfeit. The Emperor ordered it to be tested with fierce fire and struck with a golden hammer; it suffered no damage whatsoever. Presently, the relic poured forth light that illuminated the western direction. The Emperor said: "The merit is great. Shall it return to Chanjiao [Monastery]?" He then contained it in a crystal jewel casket, composed an imperial vow text, and had it reverently escorted back to the monastery. Earlier, the people of Chenliu had built a monastery for the śramaṇa Yijin and requested the plaque 'Chanjiao'. Suddenly an Indian monk arrived and said: "I have brought the Buddha's finger-bone relic from Tianzhu, seeking an auspicious place to enshrine it. None other than the Master can protect it." He offered it and left. Thereafter, auspicious light frequently manifested, and prayers were often answered (stele composed by Pang Jie). ○ Since the temples were destroyed in the Zhou dynasty and restored during the Jianlong era, in both the left and right sectors of the capital there were only the Nanshan Vinaya school and the doctrinal studies of Xianshou and Ci'en. Talented scholar-officials of surpassing intelligence were weary of hearing discussions of names and characteristics (nāmalakṣana), while Tiantai's cessation-and-contemplation and Bodhidharma's Chan lineage had not yet been able to flourish there. From the Chunhua era onward, Siming and Tianzhu practiced the Way; in the southeast, the contemplation-of-mind lineage-eye illuminated the world. Yang Yi and Chao Jiong brought it to light. Emperor Zhenzong praised and rewarded them, bestowing the titles Fazhi and Ciyun. Although the court and the public admired them for a time, they ultimately could not establish their teachings in the capital. At this point, the inner palace attendant Li Yunning memorialized to convert a residence in Bianjing to establish a Chan platform; an plaque was thus granted with the name Shifang Jingyin. The Emperor had turned his attention to the emptiness lineage and issued an edict seeking one possessed of the Way to dwell there. Ouyang Xiu and others requested that Yuantong June answer the call. Ne declined due to illness and accordingly recommended Huailian to replace him (*Ouyang waizhuan*).