佛祖歷代通載 18.38

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（十四　辛卯）　南安岩尊者示寂。師諱自嚴。生鄭氏。泉州同安人也。年十一棄家。依建興臥像寺僧契緣為童子。十七為大僧。游方至廬陵。謁西峯耆宿雲豁。豁乃清涼智明禪師高弟雲門嫡孫也。太宗甞詔至闕。館於北御園舍中。習定久之。懇之還山。公依止五年。密契心法。辭去渡懷仁江。有蛟每為行人害。公為說偈誡之而蛟輒去。過黃楊峽。渴欲飲。會溪涸。公以杖擿之而水得。父老來聚觀。合爪以為神。公遯去。武平黃石岩多蛇虎。公止住而蛇虎可使令。四遠聞之大驚。爭敬事之。民以雨暘男女禱者。隨其欲應念而獲。家畫其像飲食必祭。隣寺僧死。公不知法當告官。便自焚之。吏追捕。坐庭中問狀。不答索紙作偈曰。雲外野僧死。雲外野僧燒。二法無差互。菩提路不遙。而字畫險勁如擘窠大篆。吏大怒。以為狂旦慢己。去僧伽黎曝日中。既得釋因以布帽其首。而衣以白服。公根所說法聽者疑信半。因不語者六年。岩寺當輸布而民歲代輸之。公不忍折簡。置布吏中祈免。吏張曄歐陽程者。相顧怒甚。追至問狀。不答。以為妖火所著帽明鮮。又索紙作偈曰。一切慈忍力。皆吾心所生。王官若拘束。佛法不流行。自是時亦語。去游南康槃古山。先是西竺波利尊者經始讖曰。却後當有白衣菩薩來興此山。公住三年而成叢林。異跡甚著。如本傳所屬。狀以聞。詔佳之。宰相王欽若大參趙安仁已下皆獻詩。公未甞視。置承塵上而已。淳化辛卯正月初六日。集眾曰。吾此日生。今正是時。遂右脇臥而化。閱世八十有二。坐六十有五夏。諡曰定光圓應禪師。

(14. Xinmao [991 CE]) The Venerable of Nan'an Cliff manifested nirvāṇa. The master's taboo name was Ziyan; he was born into the Zheng family, a native of Tong'an in Quanzhou. At the age of eleven he renounced the family, relying on the monk Qiyuan of Woxiang Temple in Jianxing as a postulant. At seventeen he became a fully ordained monk. Traveling on pilgrimage, he reached Luling and visited the senior elder Yunhuo of Xifeng. Huo was an eminent disciple of Chan Master Qingliang Zhiming and a true grandson in the lineage of Yunmen. Taizong once summoned him by decree to the court, lodging him in the northern imperial garden lodges, where he practiced meditation for a long time; [Taizong] earnestly besought him to return to the mountain. The master relied on him for five years and intimately tallied with the mind-Dharma. Taking his leave, he crossed the Huairen River. There was a flood dragon that frequently caused harm to travelers; the master spoke a verse to admonish it, and the flood dragon promptly left. Passing the Huangyang Gorge, he was thirsty and wished to drink. It happened that the stream had run dry; the master struck it with his staff and obtained water. The village elders gathered to watch, joining their palms in reverence, regarding him as divine; the master slipped away. At Huangshi Cliff in Wuping there were many snakes and tigers; the master stayed there, and the snakes and tigers could be commanded by him. People far and wide heard of this and were greatly astonished, vying to serve him reverently. When the people prayed for rain or clear skies, sons or daughters, they obtained them according to their desires as soon as the thought arose. Every household painted his image and inevitably offered sacrifices before eating and drinking. A monk from a neighboring temple died, and the master, not knowing that by law he should notify the authorities, simply cremated him himself. The officials pursued and arrested him. Sitting in the hall, they questioned him about the circumstances; he did not reply, but asked for paper and composed a verse: 'A rustic monk beyond the clouds has died, / A rustic monk beyond the clouds has burned. / The two phenomena do not conflict; / The path to bodhi is not far.' The calligraphy was vigorous and steep, like large seal characters. The officials were furious, considering him mad and insolent towards them; they took away his saṃghāṭī and exposed him to the sun. Once released, he covered his head with a cloth cap and dressed in white garments. Regarding the Dharma the master expounded based on roots, half the listeners doubted and half believed; consequently, he did not speak for six years. The cliff temple was required to pay a cloth tax, but the people substituted for it annually. The master could not bear this, broke a slip of paper, and deposited the cloth with the officials, praying for exemption. The officials Zhang Ye and Ouyang Cheng looked at each other in great fury, pursued him, and interrogated him; he did not reply. Thinking that his cap was made radiant by demonic fire, he again asked for paper and composed a verse: 'All powers of compassion and forbearance / Are born entirely from my mind. / If royal officials constrain them, / The Buddha-Dharma will not circulate.' From then on, he spoke occasionally. He left to travel to Pangu Shan in Nankang. Previously, the Venerable Polipo (Vajrabodhi?) from the Western Heavens had surveyed the site and prophesied, 'Afterwards, a white-robed bodhisattva will come to make this mountain flourish.' The master lived there for three years and completed the monastery. His extraordinary deeds were extremely renowned, as recorded in his principal biography. A report was submitted to the throne; an imperial decree praised him. Grand Councilor Wang Qinruo, Participant in Political Affairs Zhao Anren, and those below all presented poems. The master never looked at them, merely placing them on the ceiling rafters. On the sixth day of the first month of Chunhua, xinmao [991 CE], he gathered the assembly and said, 'I was born on this day; now is the very time.' Thereupon, he lay down on his right side and transformed. He lived through eighty-two years and had sat sixty-five summers. He was posthumously named Chan Master Dingguang Yuanying.