[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [釋氏稽古略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037) › 3.279 # 釋氏稽古略 3.279 釋氏稽古略 3.279 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.279](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.279) 江西撫州路曹山禪師。名本寂。生泉州莆田黃氏。少業儒。年十九歲往福州靈石出家。二十五登戒謁洞山。山問。闍梨名甚麼。師曰本寂。山曰。那箇聻。師曰不名本寂。山深器之。自此入室。盤桓數載乃辭去。山遂密授洞上宗旨。直趨曹溪禮六祖塔回吉水。眾嚮師名請開法。師志慕六祖。遂名山曰曹。尋值賊亂乃之宜黃。有信士王若一。捨何王觀請師住持。師更何王為荷玉。由是法席大興。學者雲萃。洞山之宗至師為盛。昭宗天復元年六月十五日謂眾白。曹山明日辰時行脚去。及時焚香宴坐而化壽六十二。臘三十七。葬全身於山之西阿。勅諡元證禪師。塔曰福圓。寂嗣洞山良价禪師。价嗣雲巖晟。晟嗣藥山儼。儼嗣石頭遷。遷嗣青原思。思嗣六祖大鑒禪師（傳燈錄）。 > Chan Master Caoshan of the Fuzhou Circuit in Jiangxi was named Benji. He was born to the Huang family of Putian in Quanzhou. In his youth he pursued Confucian studies. At the age of nineteen, he went to Lingshi in Fuzhou to leave home. At twenty-five, having taken the precepts, he called on Dongshan. Dongshan asked, "Ācārya, what is your name?" The master said, "Benji." Dongshan said, "What about that one?" The master said, "It is not named Benji." Dongshan deeply valued him as a vessel. From then on he entered the abbot's room; having tarried for several years, he then took his leave. Dongshan thereupon secretly transmitted to him the宗旨 of the Dongshan lineage. He went straight to Caoxi to pay homage at the stupa of the Sixth Patriarch, and then returned to Jishui. The multitude, drawn to the master's reputation, invited him to inaugurate Dharma teachings. Because the master aspired to emulate the Sixth Patriarch, he named the mountain Cao. Soon afterward, encountering the turmoil of bandits, he went to Yihuang. A faithful layman named Wang Ruoyi donated the Hewang Daoist Abbey and invited the master to assume the abbacy. The master changed "Hewang" to "Heyu." From this, his Dharma assembly flourished greatly, and students gathered like clouds. The lineage of Dongshan reached its height with the master. On the fifteenth day of the sixth month in the first year of Tianfu of Zhaozong, he addressed the assembly, saying, "Caoshan will set out on foot tomorrow at the chen hour (7–9 a.m.)." When the time came, he burned incense, sat peacefully, and passed away, aged sixty-two, with a monastic age of thirty-seven. His whole body was buried on the western slope of the mountain. By imperial decree he was posthumously titled Chan Master Yuanzheng, and his stupa was named Fuyuan. Ji was the heir of Chan Master Dongshan Liangjie; Jie was the heir of Yunyan Sheng; Sheng was the heir of Yaoshan Yan; Yan was the heir of Shitou Qian; Qian was the heir of Qingyuan Si; and Si was the heir of the Sixth Patriarch, Chan Master Dajian (Records of the Transmission of the Lamp). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.278](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.278) - [Next: 3.280](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.280) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037~en-mt.3.279) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.279](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.279) · Pramāṇa