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Guiyou \[1093\]) Chan Master Jingyin Daozhen, courtesy name Boxiang, was a son of the Dai family of Gutian in Fuzhou. In his youth he did not eat meat. At fourteen he went to Shangsheng cloister to practice dhūta austerities. Six years later he became a fully ordained monk. He examined the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna sūtras and treatises, then set them aside and ceased reading them, saying, "These are merely expedient teachings." He immediately took a single bowl and traveled through the Jiang and Huai regions. The spiritual friends he consulted were very numerous, but he attained the ultimate principle through Venerable Yuan of Fushan. The abbacy of Chengtian in Jiangzhou became vacant and they summoned Zhen, but this was not what he desired, so he traveled to Danyang and stayed at Yinsheng. One day, walking along the riverbank looking for a boat, he pondered silently, "I should follow where I go, trusting to my karmic affinities." He asked a boatman, "May I ride at the stern of your boat?" The boatman smiled and said, "Where do you wish to go, Master? My boat is headed for Bian\[liang\]." Zhen said, "I am traveling to the capital." Thereupon the boatman took him north. He paid his respects to Jingyin Dajue, Venerable Lian. Venerable Lian made him the head of the assembly of monks beneath his seat. When Lian returned to Wu, the assembly requested Zhen to succeed him. On the day he inaugurated his teaching, Emperor Yingzong dispatched an envoy from the palace to present incense and bestow a purple square robe and an honorific title. The capital was a metropolis of the four directions with myriad passions; nobles and high officials daily filled his gate. At the passing of Empress Cisheng, Emperor Shenzong summoned him to the Qingshou Palace, granting him an audience, and was well pleased. A high and wide seat was arranged, allowing all people to engage in dialogue; those high and low, left and right all marveled at this rarity, and rejoicing moved the palace halls. Gifts bestowed were exceedingly bountiful. Shenzong, grieving at the decline of the Buddha's teaching and pitying the corruption of clinging to names and characteristics, converted Xiangguo \[Monastery\] into the two monasteries of Huilin and Zhihai. The appointments to select monks to lead them had to be chosen by Zhen; the elders all followed his guidance like grass bending before the wind. When Shenzong ascended to heaven, Zhen was summoned by imperial decree to preach the Dharma in the Funing Hall. An imperial decree stated that Daozhen, having consistently possessed virtuous conduct, was granted the title Chan Master Jingzhao. On the seventeenth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the Yuanyou era \[1093\], he had previously told his disciple Jingyuan, "I shall depart in three days." When the time arrived, he bathed and changed his clothes, recited a verse, and entered stillness sitting cross-legged. He had lived eighty years and spent sixty-one summer retreats. Zhen was naturally compassionate, calm, and self-effacing, as if unable to speak. Dwelling in the western corner of the imperial capital, he and more than forty patch-robed monks withdrew quietly and did not step beyond the gate, thirty years passing like a single day. He sustained his body with great austerity: a single cloth skirt was not replaced for twenty years; he used five strips of cloth just enough to cover his shins, without making many pleats, saying, "It is merely a waste." He had no fond habits; yet he had the western wall of the abbot's quarters whitewashed and invited Wen Yuke to paint ink bamboo, saying to people, "I let visitors see it so their minds and eyes become pure and cool; this gentleman preaches the Dharma on my behalf." He once preached the Dharma in the Qingshou Palace. A monk asked, "Whither did Empress Cisheng go upon her ascent to the immortals?" Zhen said, "Water flows, yet fundamentally remains in the sea; / The moon sets, yet never leaves the sky." The Emperor was pleased, and taking him to be truly capable, respected him all the more. (Huang Luzhi inscribed his portrait, saying: "An old tiger without teeth; / A reclining dragon that does not roar. / The moon is dark across a thousand forests; / Clouds cast shade over the six directions from afar. / Mountains make eyebrows, red apricots make cheeks; / Marrying the spring wind without need of a matchmaker. / An old woman of fifteen years, eyes of a youth; / Knowing how to apply powder here and rouge there.") > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 19.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.19.31) - [Next: 19.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.19.33) - [Up: 19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.19) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036~en-mt.19.32) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [續傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.9.13) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.19.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.19.32) · Pramāṇa