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臨濟宗　鎮州真定路也。臨濟禪師。名義玄。生曹州南華刑氏。自幼剃落。初到黃檗。時睦州陳尊宿為首座。問師在此幾時。師曰。在此三年。州指其問佛法的的大意。檗便打。三度問三度打。師乃辭睦州曰。自恨障緣不領深旨。今且辭去。州曰須辭和尚。睦州語檗曰。問話上座若來辭方便接伊。已後為一株陰涼大樹覆蔭天下人去在。師辭檗。檗曰往高安參大愚去。師至高安。愚曰。甚處來。師曰黃檗。愚曰。黃檗有何言句。師曰某甲三度問佛法的的大意。三度被打。不知有過無過。愚曰。黃檗與麼老婆心切。師於言下大悟。乃曰。元來黃檗佛法無多子。愚搊住曰。這尿床鬼子。適來道有過無過。如今却道佛法無多子。爾見箇甚麼道理。速道速道。師於大愚肋下築三拳。愚拓開曰。汝師黃檗。非干我事。却回黃檗。檗曰來來去去有甚了期。師曰。祇為老婆心切。便人事了侍立。檗曰。大愚有何言句。師舉前話。檗曰。大愚老漢饒舌。待來痛與一頓。師曰。說甚待來即今便打。遂掌黃檗。檗曰。這風顛漢來這裏捋虎鬚。師便喝。檗云。侍者引之參堂去。師後住鎮州臨濟。學侶雲集。乃曰。大凡演暢宗乘。一句中須具三玄門。一玄門須具三要。有權有實有照有用。汝等諸人作麼生會。後居大名府興化寺東堂。至是咸通八年四月十日說偈曰。㳂流不止問如何。真照無邊說似他。離相離名人不稟。吹毛用了急須磨。端坐而逝。塔全身於府西北隅。勅諡慧照禪師。塔曰澄靈。嗣黃檗運。運嗣百丈海。緇林尊仰曰臨濟宗（傳燈錄）。

The Linji School: Zhenzhou is the circuit of Zhending. Chan Master Linji was named Yixuan. He was born to the Xing family of Nanhua in Caozhou. He shaved his head in his youth. When he first arrived at Huangbo, Venerable Chen of Muzhou was serving as head monk. [Muzhou] asked the master, "How long have you been here?" The master said, "I have been here three years." Muzhou instructed him to ask about the explicit and cardinal meaning of the Buddha Dharma. Huangbo struck him at once. Three times he asked, and three times he was struck. The master then took his leave of Muzhou, saying, "I lament that my own obstructing conditions keep me from grasping the profound meaning; I shall take my leave and depart for now." Muzhou said, "You must take leave of the Venerable Abbot." Muzhou said to Huangbo, "If the senior monk who asked the questions comes to take leave, guide him with skillful means. Later on he will become a great, shady tree providing shelter for the people of the world." The master took leave of Huangbo. Huangbo said, "Go to Gao'an and consult Dayu." The master arrived at Gao'an. Dayu asked, "Where have you come from?" The master said, "From Huangbo." Dayu asked, "What words and phrases did Huangbo have?" The master said, "I asked three times about the explicit and cardinal meaning of the Buddha Dharma, and three times I was struck. I do not know whether I was at fault or not." Dayu said, "Huangbo was so earnest and grandmotherly on your behalf!" At these words, the master was greatly enlightened, and thereupon said, "Actually, Huangbo's Buddha Dharma does not amount to much!" Dayu seized him and said, "You bed-wetting devil! Just now you said, 'Was I at fault or not?' and now you turn around and say the Buddha Dharma does not amount to much! What principle have you seen? Speak quickly! Speak quickly!" The master punched Dayu in the ribs three times. Dayu pushed him away, saying, "Your master is Huangbo; it has nothing to do with me." [The master] returned to Huangbo. Huangbo said, "Coming and going like this, when will there ever be an end?" The master said, "It was simply out of grandmotherly earnestness." Having concluded the courtesies, he stood in attendance. Huangbo said, "What words did Dayu have?" The master related the previous conversation. Huangbo said, "That old fellow Dayu has too much to say! Just wait until he comes; I'll give him a good thrashing!" The master said, "Why speak of waiting until he comes? Strike him right now!" With that, he slapped Huangbo. Huangbo said, "This mad fellow has come here to stroke the tiger's whiskers!" The master then gave a shout. Huangbo said, "Attendant, take him away to the monks' hall." Later, the master resided at Linji in Zhenzhou, where students gathered like clouds. He then said: "In general, when expounding the school's vehicle, within a single phrase there must be three profound gates; within each profound gate there must be three essentials. There are the provisional and the real, illumination and function. How do all of you understand this?" Later he resided in the Eastern Hall of Xinghua Monastery in Daming Prefecture. Reaching this point, on the tenth day of the fourth month in the eighth year of Xiantong, he uttered a verse: / 'Following the stream without cease, one asks how it goes; / True illumination is boundless, yet one speaks as if it were another. / Detached from forms and names, people do not receive it; / The hair-blowing sword, once used, must be swiftly sharpened.' / He passed away sitting upright. His entire body was stupaed in the northwest corner of the prefecture. By imperial decree he was posthumously titled Chan Master Huizhao, and his stupa was named Chenling. He was the dharma heir of Huangbo Yun; Yun was the heir of Baizhang Hai. The monastic community revered him and called [his lineage] the Linji School (Records of the Transmission of the Lamp).