佛祖歷代通載 19.29

19.29

（十二）　江州東林常總禪師。生劍州尤溪施氏。母夢男子頎然色如金握白芙蓉三柄以授之。但一柄得。餘委地。覺而娠。後誕三子。伯仲皆不育。總其季也。年十一依寶雲寺文兆法師出家。又八年落髮。詣建州大中寺契恩律師受具。初至吉州禾山禪智材公。材有人望。延之不留。聞南禪師之道依歸宗。久之無所得而去。歸宗火。南遷石門南塔。又往從之。及南公自石門遷黃蘗積翠以至黃龍。總皆在焉。二十年之間。凡七往返。南佳其勤勞稱於眾。總自負密記。決志大掖濟北之宗。洪州太守榮公修撰請住泐潭。或謂馬祖再來也。道俗爭先願見。元豐三年詔革江州東林律居為禪。觀文殿學士王公韶出南昌。欲延寶覺心公。心舉總自代。總知宵道去千餘里。檄諸郡期必得之。得於新淦殊山窮谷中。遂應命。其徒相謂曰。遠公甞有記曰。吾滅七百年後。有肉身大士。革吾道場。今符其語矣。總之名聞天子。有詔住相國智海禪院。總固稱山野老病不能奉詔。然州郡敦遣急於星火。其徒又相語曰。聰明泉適自涸矣。凡兩月而得旨。如所乞。就賜紫伽黎。號廣惠。其徒又相語曰。聰明泉復湧沸矣。元祐三年徐國王奏。號照覺禪師。總於衲子有大緣。槌拂之下眾盈七百。叢席之盛。近世所未有也。六年八月示疾。九月二十五日浴罷安坐而化。十月八日全身葬于雁門塔之東。世壽六十七。坐四十九夏。

(Twelve) Chan Master Donglin Changzong of Jiangzhou was born into the Shi family of Youxi in Jianzhou. His mother dreamt of a tall man of golden hue holding three stems of white lotus flowers, which he gave to her; she obtained only one stem, while the others dropped to the ground. When she awoke, she was pregnant. Later she gave birth to three sons; the elder two were not raised to adulthood, and Zong was the youngest. At the age of eleven, he relied on Dharma Master Wenzhao of Baoyun Temple to renounce household life (pravrajyā). Eight years later he shaved his head and went to Vinaya Master Qien of Dazhong Temple in Jianzhou to receive full ordination (upasampadā). He first went to Ji Shan in Jizhou to see Master Heshan Zhanzhicai. Cai enjoyed great prestige among people; he invited him to stay, but [Zong] did not remain. Hearing of the Way of Chan Master Nan, he took refuge at Guizong. After a long time, having gained nothing, he departed. Guizong caught fire, and Nan relocated to the South Pagoda of Shimen; [Zong] went again to follow him. When Master Nan moved from Shimen to Huangbo, Jicui, and on to Huanglong, Zong was always there. Over the course of twenty years, he went back and forth seven times in all. Nan appreciated his diligent labor and praised him before the assembly. Zong was confident in his secret transmission and determined to greatly assist the Linji school. Rong Xiuquan, the governor of Hongzhou, invited him to dwell at Letan; some said he was Mazu reborn. Monastics and laypeople vied to see him first. In the third year of the Yuanfeng era, an imperial decree reformed the Donglin Vinaya dwelling in Jiangzhou into a Chan monastery. Scholar Wang Shao of the Guanwen Hall went out to Nanchang and wished to invite Master Baojue Xin. Xin recommended Zong to take his place. Zong, learning of this, traveled by night over a thousand li away. Official notices were dispatched to various commanderies ordering that he be found at all costs; he was found in an isolated valley of Shushan in Xingan, whereupon he accepted the appointment. His disciples said to one another, "Master Yuan once made a prophecy, saying, 'Seven hundred years after my passing, a great being in bodily form will reform my bodhimaṇḍa.' Now his words have come true!" Zong's renown reached the hearing of the Son of Heaven, and an imperial decree appointed him to reside at the Zhihai Chan Cloister of Xiangguo Temple. Zong firmly claimed that, being an old and sick man of the mountains, he could not obey the edict. Yet the prefecture and commanderies pressed him with urgency like flying sparks. His disciples again said to one another, "The Spring of Intelligence has just run dry!" After two months, an imperial decree was obtained granting his request, and he was granted a purple saṃghāṭī and the title Guanghui. His disciples again said to one another, "The Spring of Intelligence is bubbling up again!" In the third year of the Yuanyou era, upon a memorial by the King of Xu, he was given the title Chan Master Zhaojue. Zong had great affinity with monks; under his mallet and whisk, the assembly numbered more than seven hundred, a flourishing of the assembly unseen in recent generations. In the eighth month of the sixth year, he showed illness. On the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, after bathing, he sat peacefully and passed away. On the eighth day of the tenth month, his whole body was buried to the east of Yanmen Pagoda. His worldly age was sixty-seven; he had spent forty-nine summer retreats.