佛祖歷代通載 22.186

22.186

（十九）　秦州普覺法師卒。教自隋唐之後。傳者各宗其說。遂派而為三。由止觀之門。觀假而悟空。觀空而趣中。以入於實相者。為天台宗。會緣入實。即俗而明真者。為賢首宗。窮萬有之數。昭一性之玄。有空殊致而同歸乎中道者。為慈恩宗。師為慈恩宗者也。姓趙氏。諱英辯。垂髫為驅烏。甫弱冠資二百五十戒。二十有五得傳於柏林潭公為座主。凡為僧六十有一年。年六十有八。延祐元年六月庚戌終於景福寺。煥異景於易簀之夕。標奇迹於火葬之餘。以其年月日塔於普覺寺之後。師為性真純。如美玉含璞。雖不加雕繪。而人自愛重之。至於悍卒武夫。亦能敬其人。謂無佛之世足為佛也。每得錢蔽悉以剏佛祠。食守道之侶。故君子高其風。

(19) Dharma Master Pujue of Qinzhou passed away. Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the teachers of the doctrinal schools have each followed their own traditions, branching into three. The school that enters the true mark by means of the gate of cessation and contemplation (śamatha-vipaśyanā)—contemplating the provisional to awaken to emptiness, and contemplating emptiness to proceed to the middle—is the Tiantai school. The school that integrates conditions into the real, and illuminates the true right within the conventional, is the Xianshou school. The school that exhausts the reckonings of all existents, illuminates the mystery of the one nature, and reconciles the different approaches of existence and emptiness so that they converge in the Middle Way, is the Ci'en school. The Master was an adherent of the Ci'en school. His surname was Zhao; his taboo name was Yingbian. When his hair hung in tufts as a boy, he served as a bird-scaring novice. Just as he was capped at twenty, he received the two hundred and fifty precepts. At twenty-five, he received transmission from Master Tan of Bailin and became a lecture master. In all, he was a monk for sixty-one years, living to the age of sixty-eight. On the gengxu day of the sixth month in the first year of the Yanyou era, he passed away at Jingfu Temple. Extraordinary omens shone brightly on the evening he changed mats (died), and miraculous traces stood out in what remained of his cremation. On that same year, month, and day, a stupa was erected behind Pujue Temple. By nature, the Master was genuine and pure, like fine jade contained within unpolished stone; though unadorned, people naturally loved and respected him. Even fierce soldiers and warriors respected him, saying: 'In an age without a Buddha, he is worthy of being a Buddha.' Whenever he obtained money or silk, he used it all to establish Buddhist shrines and feed his companions who maintained the Way. Therefore, gentlemen held his conduct in high esteem.