佛祖歷代通載 19.36

19.36

（二十五）　是年雲居元祐禪師卒。王氏。信之上饒人。年十三師事博山承天沙門齊晟。二十四得度具戒。時南禪師在黃蘗。往依之。十餘年智辨自將氣出流輩。眾以是悅之少。然祐不䘏也。南歿去游湘中。廬於衡岳馬祖故基。衲子追隨聲重荊楚間。謝師直守潭州。欲禪道林之律居。盡禮致祐為第一世。祐欣然肯來。道林蜂房蟻穴。聞見層出。像設之多。冠於湘西。祐夷廓之。為虛堂為禪室。以會四海之學者。役夫不敢壞像設。祐自鋤棄諸江曰。昔本不成。今安得壞。吾法尚無凡情。存聖解乎。六年而殿閣崇成。棄之去。游廬山。南康太守陸公。時請住玉㵎寺。徐王聞其名。奏賜紫袍。祐作偈辭之曰。為僧六十鬢先華。無補空門號出家。願乞封回禮部牒。兔辜盧老納袈裟。人問其故。祐曰。人主之恩而王者之施。非敢辭。以近名也。但以法未等耳。王安上者舒王之弟。問法於祐。以雲居延之。祐曰。為携此骨歸葬峯頂耳。登輿而去。疾諸方死必塔者。祐曰。山川有限。僧死無窮。他日塔將無所容。於是於開山宏覺塔之東作卵塔曰。凡住持者非生身不壞火浴雨舍利者。皆以骨石填于此。其西又作卵塔曰。凡僧化皆以骨石填于此。謂之三塔。紹聖二年七月七日。夜集眾說偈而化。世壽六十有六。坐四十有二夏。

(25) In this year Chan Master Yunju Yuanyou died. He was of the Wang family, a native of Shangrao in Xinzhou. At age thirteen, he served as a master the śramaṇa Qisheng of Chengtian in Boshan. At twenty-four he was ordained and received the full precepts. At that time Chan Master Nan was at Huangbo; You went to rely on him. For more than ten years, his wisdom and eloquence stood out on their own, his spirit rising above his peers; the assembly, because of this, favored him little, but You took no heed. When Nan died, he left to travel in the Xiang region and thatched a hut on the old foundation of Mazu on Mount Heng. Patch-robed monks followed him, and his renown grew great between the Jing and Chu regions. Xie Shizhi, serving as prefect of Tanzhou, wished to convert the Vinaya residence of Daolin into a Chan monastery, and extended every courtesy to invite You as its first generation abbot. You gladly agreed to come. At Daolin, the buildings were clustered like bee cells and ant nests, layered view upon view; the multitude of images and shrines was foremost in western Xiang. You leveled and cleared them, creating an open hall and Chan chambers to gather students from the four seas. The laborers dared not dismantle the images and shrines, so You hoed and threw them into the river himself, saying, "Originally they were never formed; how can they now be destroyed? If our Dharma does not even admit ordinary sentiment, how could it preserve holy understanding?" In six years the halls and pavilions stood lofty and complete, and then he abandoned them and departed. Traveling to Mount Lu, Prefect Lu of Nankang invited him to abide at Yujian Temple. King Xu, hearing of his fame, memorialized to bestow a purple robe. You composed a verse declining it, saying: "Having been a monk for sixty years, my temples are already white; / I bring no benefit to the Empty Gate, though called one who has left home. / I beg to return the document from the Ministry of Rites, / Lest I betray Elder Lu's patched kāṣāya." When people asked his reason, You said, "The grace of the sovereign and the gift of a prince are not something I dare lightly decline; yet it borders on worldly fame, and it is merely that my Dharma has not reached equality." Wang Anshang, the younger brother of Prince Shu [Wang Anshi], asked You about the Dharma and invited him to Yunju. You said, "It is only to carry these bones to be buried on the peak." He boarded the sedan chair and departed. Disliking the custom of various regions that every death must have a stūpa, You said, "Mountains and streams have limits, but the deaths of monks are endless; in future days there will be no room for stūpas." Thereupon, to the east of the stūpa of the founding master Hongjue, he built an egg-shaped stūpa, saying, "All abbots, unless their physical bodies remain incorrupt or their cremation rains relics, shall have their bones and ashes placed here." To its west he built another egg-shaped stūpa, saying, "All ordinary monks who pass away shall have their bones and ashes placed here." These were called the Three Stūpas. On the seventh day of the seventh month of the second year of the Shaosheng era [1095], at night, he gathered the assembly, recited a verse, and was transformed. His worldly age was sixty-six, and he had spent forty-two summer retreats.