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Xinhai) Vinaya Master Tanyi of Yuezhou passed away. The Reminder Liang Su composed his stele inscription, which states: The late Buddhist Vinaya Master, named Tanyi and styled Jueyin, was eighty years of age and had sixty-one monastic summers. On the seventh day of the twelfth month of the sixth year of the Dali reign period, he entered extinction at Kaiyuan Monastery in Yuezhou. His seat was moved and a pagoda was erected on the sunny side of Mount Qinwang. Those wearing mourning garments and attending the burial numbered in the thousands and hundreds. The Great Master was of the Zhang clan of Nanyang. His great-grandfather Heng, Minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices under the Sui dynasty, first settled in Shanyin of Kuaiji. The Great Master was born endowed with pure qi, and his sharp comprehension manifested early on. In his youth, he studied the Five Classics and, while exploring the Cave of Yu, came to Yunmen Monastery, where he went forth into the monastic life under the monk Master Liang. During the Jinglong reign period, he received tonsure and soon took the full precepts. Heaven had endowed him with eloquence and wisdom, enriched further by decorum and conduct; unanimously, he was already admired by people. In the beginning of the Kaiyuan reign period, he traveled west to Chang'an. Vinaya Master Guanyin Liang met him, considered him extraordinary, and instructed him in the study of the vinaya. He also relied on Master Tanzu of Chongsheng Monastery to study the Abhidharmakośa and vijñapti-mātra. From the great Indian monk \[Śubhākarasiṃha\] Wūwèi, he received the bodhisattva precepts. He probed the Way, grasped its depths, and stood out brilliantly from his peers; within a month, his renown shook the capital. The Great Master was lofty and unyielding as a cliff, yet his spiritual faculties were open and magnanimous; his disposition and understanding were precise and refined, and his practical responsiveness was empty and luminous. He grasped the subtle depths of the Tripiṭaka and plumbed the bottom of the various lineages. In addition, having long understood the mysteries and Confucianism, he was also broadly versed in calendars and apocrypha. The elders heard of his style and bowed in admiration; ministers and nobles lowered their couches to treat him as an honored guest. Because of this, he became an intimate, close friend in the exchange between Confucianism and Buddhism with Lu Xiangxian, Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince and Duke of the State of Yan; He Zhizhang, Guest of the Crown Prince; Li Yong, Governor of Beihai; Xu Anzhen, Secretariat Drafter; and Chu Tinghui, Policy Critic. In guiding the world, he always led with literary culture and moral practice, and broadened them through the precepts and concentration. When one enters an orchid room, the fragrance wafts forth naturally; when one approaches a water mirror, even a single hair is clearly reflected—yet no one knows why this is so. In the twenty-sixth year of the Kaiyuan reign period, he returned to Kuaiji and said to people: 'The foundation of the Buddhist Dharma across the three periods of time is the precepts. If the foundation is not cultivated, how could the Way not be far off?' Therefore, in setting up teachings, he took śīla as the primary basis. Taking the Vinaya Commentaries of Ye Prefecture and combining them with the Practical Notes of Zhongnan, he gathered their similarities and differences to elucidate the correct meaning in detail. Students relied upon it. Broadly speaking, reaching north to Hebei and south beyond Jing and Min, the Dharmaguptaka lineage flourished through him. Like a blazing torch dispelling darkness, like manifold streams rushing toward mountain streams and ponds—such was the spread of his teaching at the time of his coming. Born conditioned, he came to rest following the transformations. The grasses and trees are secretly moistened, and the cloud of compassion is without mind—such was his abiding in accord with nature at the time of his departure. Human generations shift and turn; the Way endures while worldly fortune passes. Looking from afar, one sees nothing but the solitary, empty mountain. How mournful! The inscription reads: The waters of Yue are boundless; / The high peaks encircle and join. / The Great Master has transformed and perished; / In due form this sacred pagoda is raised. / Yearning in admiration for the superior man / Who gave birth to and cultivated the pure Dharma: / Possessing majesty and decorum, / Neither defective nor mixed. / His virtue was widespread, his transformation harmonizing, / Drawn like clouds, received like the sea. / Engraving the inscription to pass down to posterity / For thousands, tens of thousands of millions of kalpas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 14.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.14.17) - [Next: 14.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.14.19) - [Up: 14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.14) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036~en-mt.14.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.14.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.14.18) · Pramāṇa