[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) › 3.484 # 釋氏稽古略 3.484 釋氏稽古略 3.484 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.484](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.484) 韶國師　名德韶。處州龍泉陳氏子。年十五出家。十七歲依本州龍歸寺受業。十八納戒於信州開元寺。後唐莊宗同光年中。遊方首謁投子山同禪師。次謁龍牙疎山。如是參歷五十四員善知識。最後至江西撫州。謁法眼益禪師。倦於參問但隨眾而已。一日僧問法眼。如何是曹源一滴水。眼曰。是曹源一滴水。師於座側聞之。豁然開悟。白於法眼。眼曰。汝向後當為國王所師致祖道光大。尋回本道。遊天台山。覩智者顗禪師遺踪。有若宿契。初止白沙。時吳越忠懿王弘俶為王子刺台州。嚮師之名延請問道。至是乾祐二年。王已嗣吳越位。遣使迎師伸弟子之禮。尊為國師。有傳天台智者之教沙門義寂者。即螺溪法師也。屢言於師曰。智者之教年祀寢遠。卒多散落惟。新羅國其本甚備。請和尚慈力為致之。師乃聞于越王。王為遣使齎師之書往彼國。繕寫備足而還。迄今台宗教文獲全者。師有力焉。師有偈曰。通玄峰頂不是人間。心外無法滿目青山。法眼聞云。即此一偈可起吾宗。宋太祖開寶五年六月二十八日集眾言別。跏趺而逝于蓮華峰。壽八十二歲。臘六十五。師嗣法眼益禪師。 > State Preceptor Shao: His name was Deshao, a son of the Chen clan of Longquan in Chuzhou. At age fifteen he left home, and at seventeen he was tonsured at Longgui Temple in his home prefecture. At eighteen he received the full precepts at Kaiyuan Temple in Xinzhou. During the Tongguang era of Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang, he went on pilgrimage, first calling upon Chan Master Tong of Mount Touzi, and next visiting Longya and Shushan. In this manner he visited and trained under fifty-four good spiritual friends. At last he reached Fuzhou in Jiangxi and called upon Chan Master Fayan \[Wen\]yi. Weary of inquiry, he merely followed the assembly. One day a monk asked Fayan, “What is a single drop of water from the source of Cao\[xi\]?” Fayan replied, “It is a single drop of water from the source of Cao.” The Master heard this from beside the seat and was suddenly and completely enlightened. When he reported it to Fayan, Fayan said, “In the future you shall become the preceptor to a king and cause the ancestral Way to shine with great brilliance.” Soon he returned to his home circuit and traveled to Mount Tiantai. Beholding the traces left behind by Chan Master Zhiyi the Great Master, it felt like a past affinity. At first he stayed at Baisha. At that time, Hongchu, King Zhongyi of Wuyue, was a prince serving as prefect of Taizhou; admiring the Master's renown, he invited him to inquire about the Way. By this time, the second year of Qianyou, the king had already succeeded to the throne of Wuyue, and he sent an envoy to welcome the Master, extending the etiquette of a disciple and honoring him as State Preceptor. There was a śramaṇa, Yiji—that is, Dharma Master Luoxi—who transmitted the teachings of Zhiyi of Tiantai. He repeatedly said to the Master, “The teachings of the Great Master Zhiyi have receded far into the past, and ultimately most have been scattered and lost; only the Kingdom of Silla has a very complete set of texts. We pray that through your compassionate power, Venerable, you might obtain them.” The Master thereupon reported this to the King of Yue. For this purpose, the king dispatched an envoy bearing the Master's letter to that country, where they were fully transcribed and brought back. That the scriptures of the Tiantai school survive intact to this day is largely due to the Master's effort. The Master had a verse that went: “The summit of Tongxuan Peak is not of the human realm; / Outside the mind there are no phenomena—green mountains fill the eyes.” When Fayan heard this, he remarked, “This single verse alone can revitalize my school.” On the twenty-eighth day of the sixth month in the fifth year of Kaibao under Emperor Taizu of the Song, he gathered the assembly to bid farewell, and passed away seated cross-legged on Lotus Flower Peak, at the age of eighty-two, having been a monk for sixty-five years. The Master was the dharma heir of Chan Master Fayan \[Wen\]yi. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.483](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.483) - [Next: 3.485](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.485) - [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.3.484) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [景德傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.25.4) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.484](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.484) · Pramāṇa