釋氏稽古略 3.213

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布氏侍者　法名會通。姓吳（俗名元卿）為供奉官。元和十年一日奏帝曰。臣幼不食葷。志願從釋浹旬蒙詔許出家。尋母患歸杭州鄉里。趍謁鳥窠禪師於湖上。願求剃度。窠曰。今時為僧鮮有精苦者。行多浮濫。卿曰。本淨非琢磨。元明不隨照。窠曰。汝若了淨智妙圓體自空寂。即真出家。元卿確請。窠乃與披剃具戒。法名會通。侍窠年久。忽辭窠曰。諸方學佛法去。窠曰。佛法此間亦有些子。通曰。請和尚佛法。窠於身上拈起布毛吹之。通頓悟玄旨。遂不遊行。雅號布毛侍者。建伽藍於喜鵲寺之東葛嶺之西塢曰招賢（傳燈錄）。

Attendant Bumao. His Dharma name was Huitong. His surname was Wu (his secular name was Yuanqing), and he served as an Officer of Offerings. One day in the tenth year of the Yuanhe era, he memorialized the emperor: "Your servant from youth has not eaten meat; my aspiration is to follow the Śākya lineage." Within ten days he received an imperial edict granting permission to leave home. Soon his mother fell ill, and he returned to his home region in Hangzhou. He hastened to pay audience to Chan Master Niaoke by the lake, requesting tonsure. Niaoke said, "Few people who become monks nowadays are diligent and rigorous; their conduct is mostly superficial and excessive." Yuanqing said, "The fundamentally pure does not depend on grinding and polishing; the original brilliance does not follow external illumination." Niaoke said, "If you comprehend that pure wisdom is wonderfully perfect and its substance is naturally empty and tranquil, then that is true renunciation." Yuanqing steadfastly insisted, so Niaoke gave him the tonsure and administered the full precepts, naming him Huitong. Having attended on Niaoke for many years, he suddenly took leave of Niaoke, saying, "I am going to the various quarters to study the Buddha Dharma." Niaoke said, "There is also a little bit of the Buddha Dharma here." Tong said, "Please show me the Reverend's Buddha Dharma." Niaoke picked up a thread of cloth from his robe and blew on it. Tong suddenly awoke to the profound meaning, and thereupon did not travel on pilgrimage. He was elegantly nicknamed Attendant Bumao (Cloth-Fur Attendant). He established a monastery in the cove west of Ge Ridge, east of Xique Monastery, called Zhaoxian (Record of the Transmission of the Lamp).