佛祖統紀 42.35

42.35

In the fourth year, the courtyard of Chan Master Qi'an of Yanguan in Hangzhou was granted the name Qifeng Monastery by imperial decree. Earlier, when the Emperor was the Prince of Guang, Emperor Wuzong harbored jealousy toward him and confined him to the rear garden, intending to have him killed. The eunuch Qiu Shiliang falsely claimed that the Prince of Guang had died falling from a horse, whereupon [the prince] escaped and fled. He arrived in the assembly of Chan Master Xiangyan Xian, shaved his head, and became a novice. They traveled together to Mount Lu. Master Xian inscribed a poem on a waterfall: 'Piercing clouds and penetrating rock, it spares no toil; / Only from afar is it known that its source is high.' As Xian paused in thought, the novice continued it: 'How could mountain brooks and ravines retain it? / In the end it returns to the great ocean to raise billows.' Xian only then realized he was no ordinary man. Later he arrived at Haichang in Yanguan and met Chan Master Qi'an, calling himself Youguang. An marveled at him and at once appointed him as scribe. At that time, Chan Master Huangbo Yun was the chief seat. One day, [the prince] saw [Huangbo] bowing to the Buddha; Guang questioned him, saying, 'One does not seek through the Buddha; why make use of bowing?' Yun gave him a slap. He asked again, 'If one does not seek through the Buddha, why constantly do such a thing?' Yun slapped him again. Guang said, 'How excessively coarse!' Yun slapped him once more, saying, 'What coarseness or fineness is there to talk about here?' One day Master An said to him, 'The time has arrived; do not linger coiled in the mud.' He then entrusted him with the Buddhadharma. Before long, Emperor Wuzong passed away, and the hundred officials welcomed the Prince to ascend the throne. Repeatedly he sent emissaries to summon An with the rites of a teacher, but An firmly declined. Upon his passing, he was posthumously granted the title Chan Master Wukong. The Emperor conferred upon Huangbo the title 'Chan Master of Coarse Conduct.' Pei Xiu memorialized to have it changed to 'Duanji' (Xuedou's verse on Huangbo says: 'The Emperor of the Dazhong era once brushed against him lightly, / And thrice directly suffered his brandishing of claws and fangs'—this refers to this). The State of Japan dispatched the śramaṇa Jōgyō to enter the Central Kingdom to seek the esoteric teachings of Śākya.