佛祖歷代通載 18.22

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（五）　杭州慧日永明智覺禪師示寂。諱延壽。餘杭人。姓王氏。總角之歲歸心佛乘。既冠不茹葷日唯一食。持法華。七行俱下。纔六旬悉能誦之。感群羊跪聽。年二十八為華亭鎮將。屬翠岩永明大師。遷止龍冊寺大闡玄化。時吳越文穆王知師慕道。乃從其志放令出家。禮翠岩為師。執勞供眾。都亡身宰。衣不繒縷。食無重味。野蔬衣檽以遣朝夕。尋往天台天柱峯。九旬習定。有鳥類尺𮭍。巢于衣褶中。既謁韶國師。一見深器之。密授玄旨。仍謂師曰。汝與元帥有緣。他日大興佛寺。初住明州雪竇山。學侶臻湊。師上堂曰。雪竇這裏。迅瀑千尋不停纖粟。奇岩萬仞無立足處。汝等諸人向什麼處進步。時有僧問。雪竇一徑如何履踐。師云。步步寒花結。言言徹底氷。建隆元年。忠懿王請住靈隱山新寺。為第一世。明年復請住永明大道場。為第二世。眾盈二千。僧問。如何是永明旨。師曰。更添香著。曰謝。師指示曰。且喜沒交涉。師有偈曰。欲識永明旨。門前一湖水。日照光明生。風來波浪起。居永明十五年。度弟子千七百人。開寶七年入天台山。度戒萬餘人。常與七眾受菩薩戒。夜施鬼神食。朝放諸生類。六時散花行道餘力念。法花經一萬三千部。著宗鏡錄一百卷。詩偈賦詠凡千萬言。高麗國王覽師言教。遣使齎書敘弟子禮。奉金縷袈裟紫晶數珠金澡灌等。彼國僧三十六人。親承印記歸國。各化一方。開寶八年乙亥十二月二十六日辰時。焚香告眾跏趺而逝。壽七十二。臘四十二。明年建塔于大慈山焉。宋太宗賜額。曰壽寧禪院云。

(5) Chan Master Zhijue, [named] Yanshou of Huiri and Yongming in Hangzhou, passed into quiescence. His taboo name was Yanshou, a native of Yuhang surnamed Wang. In his youth he turned his mind to the Buddha Vehicle. After coming of age, he did not eat meat, ate only one meal a day, and recited the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, reading seven lines at a glance; within just sixty days he was able to recite the whole of it from memory, moving a flock of sheep to kneel and listen. At the age of twenty-eight, he served as garrison commander of Huating. At that time, Great Master Yongming of Cuiyan moved to Longce Monastery, where he vastly promulgated the profound transformation. King Wenmu of Wu-Yue, knowing that the Master yearned for the Way, acceded to his aspiration and allowed him to enter pravrajyā. He paid homage to Cuiyan as his master. He performed menial labor to provide for the assembly, completely forgetting all regard for himself. He wore no silk garments and ate no rich foods, subsisting morning and evening on wild vegetables and robes dyed with bark. Soon he went to Tianzhu Peak on Mount Tiantai, where he practiced absorption for ninety days; birds like sparrows nested in the folds of his robe. When he later had an audience with State Preceptor Dechao of Deshan [Tianji], [Dechao] recognized him as a vessel of great capacity at first sight and secretly transmitted the profound purport to him, further telling the Master: "You have an affinity with the commander-in-chief; in days to come you will vastly revive Buddhist monasteries." He first resided at Mount Xuedou in Mingzhou, where students gathered like clouds. The Master entered the hall and said: "Here at Xuedou, a swift waterfall of a thousand fathoms does not pause for a speck of grain, and wondrous crags of ten thousand cubits offer no place to set foot. Where can you people take a step forward?" A monk then asked: "How does one tread the single path of Xuedou?" The Master said: "At every step, cold flowers freeze; at every word, ice to the very bottom." In the first year of the Jianlong era, King Zhongyi invited him to reside as the first generation [abbot] at the new monastery on Mount Lingyin. The following year, [the king] again invited him to reside as the second generation [abbot] at the great bodhimanda of Yongming, where the assembly grew to over two thousand. A monk asked: "What is the essential purport of Yongming?" The Master said: "Add more incense." [The monk] said: "Thank you, Master, for the instruction." The Master said: "Fortunately, it has nothing to do with it." The Master had a verse that went: "If you wish to know the purport of Yongming, / Look at the lake of water before the gate: / When the sun shines, radiance appears; / When the wind comes, waves arise." He lived at Yongming for fifteen years and ordained one thousand seven hundred disciples. In the seventh year of the Kaibao era, he entered Mount Tiantai and administered the precepts to more than ten thousand people. He regularly conferred the bodhisattva precepts upon the seven assemblies, fed ghosts and spirits at night, released living creatures in the morning, and during the six periods of the day scattered flowers and circumambulated, reciting in his spare time thirteen thousand copies of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka. He composed the Zongjing lu in one hundred fascicles, and his poems, gāthās, rhapsodies, and verses totaled some ten million words. When the King of Goryeo read the Master's teachings, he dispatched an envoy bearing a letter to declare himself a disciple, offering a gold-threaded kāṣāya, a rosary of purple crystal, a golden water-pitcher, and other gifts. Thirty-six monks from that kingdom personally received the seal of transmission from him, returned home, and each transformed a region. On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth month of the eighth year of Kaibao, the yihai year, during the chen hour, he burned incense, informed the assembly, sat cross-legged, and passed away. His age was seventy-two; his monastic seniority was forty-two. The following year, a stūpa was built on Mount Daci. Emperor Taizong of the Song bestowed a plaque [on the monastery] reading Shouning Chan Cloister.