釋氏稽古略 3.349

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福州玄沙宗一禪師。名師備。閩之謝氏子。幼泛小艇於南臺江。狎諸漁者年三十忽慕出家。投芙蓉訓禪師剃落。往豫章開元寺受具。布衲芒屢。食纔接氣終日宴坐。雪峯以其苦行呼為頭陀。一日雪峯召之曰。何不遍參去。師曰。達磨不來東土。二祖不往西天。峯然之。住後提振宗網遐邇推敬。閩主待以師禮。學侶餘八百眾。當梁太祖開平二年十一月入寂。壽七十五。閩主為師樹塔。師嗣雪峯存禪師。

Chan Master Xuansha Zongyi of Fuzhou was named Shibei, a son of the Xie family of Min. In his youth he rowed a small boat on the Nantai River, keeping company with the fishermen. At the age of thirty, he suddenly longed to leave home, approaching Chan Master Furong Xun to shave his head. He went to Kaiyuan Monastery in Yuzhang to receive the full precepts. Wearing cloth robes and straw sandals, eating barely enough to keep breathing, he sat in peaceful meditation all day long. Xuefeng, on account of his ascetic practices, called him the Dhūta. One day Xuefeng summoned him and said, "Why do you not go traveling everywhere to study?" The Master said, "Bodhidharma did not come to the Eastern Land; the Second Patriarch did not go to the Western Heaven." Xuefeng approved of him. After taking up residence [as abbot], he promoted and upheld the net of the school, earning veneration from far and near. The ruler of Min treated him with the courtesy due a master. His assembly of students exceeded eight hundred. In the eleventh month of the second year of Kaiping under Taizu of Liang, he entered quiescence at the age of seventy-five. The ruler of Min erected a stūpa for the Master. The Master was the dharma heir of Chan Master Xuefeng Cun.