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藥山　禪師惟儼。絳州韓氏。年十七依潮陽西山慧照禪師出家。納戒於衡嶽希操律師。博通經論。嚴持戒律。首造石頭頭指之見馬祖。復還石頭領悟心要。後住澧州藥山。海眾雲合。尚書李翱字習之刺朗州（常德路也）慕師之道入山謁之。山誦經不顧李曰。見面不如聞名。師呼之。李應諾。山曰。何得貴耳賤目。李謝之乃問曰。如何是道。山以手指上下云。會麼。李曰不會。山云。雲在青天水在缾。李忻然答以偈曰。鍊得身形似鶴形。千株松下兩函經。我來問道無餘說。雲在青天水在缾。又問。如何是戒定慧。山云。這裏無此閑家具。李領解辭去。師嗣石頭遷禪師。至是太和二年入寂壽八十四。勅諡弘道大師。塔曰化城（傳燈錄）。

Yaoshan. Chan Master Weiyan was of the Han family of Jiangzhou. At age seventeen, he left household life under Chan Master Huizhao of Mount Xishan in Chaoyang. He received the precepts from Vinaya Master Xicao of Mount Heng. Broadly versed in the sūtras and treatises, he strictly observed the monastic precepts. He first visited Shitou, who directed him to see Mazu. He returned again to Shitou and comprehended the essentials of mind. Later he resided at Yaoshan in Lizhou, where an oceanic assembly gathered like clouds. Minister Li Ao, styled Xizhi, served as prefect of Langzhou (the Changde Circuit); admiring the master's Way, he entered the mountain to visit him. Yaoshan read a sūtra without looking at him. Li said, 'Seeing the face is not as good as hearing the name.' The master called to him, and Li responded. Yaoshan said, 'Why esteem the ear and despise the eye?' Li apologized and then asked, 'What is the Way?' Yaoshan pointed with his finger up and down, saying, 'Do you understand?' Li said, 'I do not.' Yaoshan said, 'Clouds are in the blue sky, water is in the pitcher.' Joyfully, Li replied with a verse: / 'Having refined his physical form to resemble a crane's, / Beneath a thousand pines are two cases of sūtras. / I came asking about the Way, and there was no other speech: / Clouds are in the blue sky, water is in the pitcher.' / He further asked, 'What are discipline, concentration, and wisdom?' Yaoshan said, 'Here there is no such idle furniture.' Li grasped the meaning and took his leave. The master was a dharma heir of Chan Master Shitou Xiqian. Coming to this, in the second year of Taihe, he entered tranquility at the age of eighty-four. An imperial edict bestowed the posthumous title Great Master Hongdao, and his stūpa was named Huacheng (Transmission of the Lamp).