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荷澤　神會禪師。襄陽高氏子。年十四為沙彌。謁六祖即得法。尋往西京受戒。中宗景龍二年歸曹溪。祖滅後二十年間。曹溪頓宗沈廢於荊吳。嵩獄漸門盛行於秦洛。師於天寶四載入京著顯宗記。以訂兩宗南能頓宗北秀漸宗也。至是上元元年師辭眾奄然而化。葬於龍門。勅建塔院。賜號真宗般若。師嗣六祖（傳燈）　荷澤山東昌路曹州也。荷（音哥）兗州之域。

Heze. Chan Master Shenhui, a son of the Gao family of Xiangyang. At the age of fourteen he became a novice; visiting the Sixth Patriarch, he immediately obtained the Dharma. Soon after, he went to the Western Capital to receive full ordination. In the second year of Zhongzong's Jinglong era, he returned to Caoxi. In the twenty years after the Patriarch's decease, Caoxi's Sudden School sank into neglect in Jing and Wu, while Mount Song's Gradual Gate flourished in Qin and Luo. In the fourth year of Tianbao, the master entered the capital and composed the Xianzong ji (Record Revealing the Tenet) to distinguish the two schools: the southern Neng's Sudden School and the northern Xiu's Gradual School. Reaching this point, in the first year of Shangyuan, the master took leave of the assembly and suddenly passed away. He was buried at Longmen. An imperial decree ordered the construction of a stūpa compound, bestowing the title Zhenzong Bore. The master was a dharma heir of the Sixth Patriarch (Chuandeng). (Heze is Caozhou in Dongchang Circuit, Shandong; He [pronounced Ge] is in the territory of Yanzhou).