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永明　杭州永明寺禪師。名道潛。河中府人。姓武氏。初謁法眼益禪師。眼問曰。子於參請外看甚麼經。師曰華嚴經。眼曰。總別同異成壞六相是何門攝屬。師曰文在十地品中。據理則世出世間一切法皆具六相也。眼曰。空還具六相也無。師懵然無對。眼曰。汝問我。師乃問。空還具六相也無。眼曰空。師於是開悟。異日因士女到院。眼問師曰。律中道隔壁間釵釧聲即名破戒。見覩金銀合雜朱紫駢闐是破戒不是破戒。師曰。好箇入路。眼曰。子向後有五百毳徒。為王侯所重在。師尋禮辭駐錫衢州古寺。閱大藏經。至是廣順元年吳越忠懿王弘俶延師入府受菩薩戒。署號慈化定慧禪師。建大伽藍於南山。曰慧日永明。請師居之。師請塔下羅漢過新寺。符王之先夢也。於是又加應真二字於師號。師於周顯德五年入寂師嗣法眼益禪師。

Yongming: Chan Master of Yongming Monastery in Hangzhou, named Daqian, a native of Hezhong Prefecture, surnamed Wu. At first, he called upon Chan Master Fayan Yi. Fayan asked him: "Outside of your visits and inquiries, what scripture do you read?" The Master replied: "The Avataṃsaka Sūtra." Fayan asked: "Which gate subsumes the six aspects—universality, particularity, identity, difference, integration, and disintegration?" The Master replied: "The text is in the 'Ten Grounds' chapter. According to principle, all worldly and transworldly phenomena possess the six aspects." Fayan said: "Does emptiness also possess the six aspects or not?" The Master was bewildered and had no reply. Fayan said: "You ask me." The Master then asked: "Does emptiness also possess the six aspects or not?" Fayan said: "Emptiness!" The Master was thereupon enlightened. On another day, because men and women came to the monastery, Fayan asked the Master: "The Vinaya says that the sound of hairpins and bracelets through a wall is called a violation of the precepts. Is seeing gold and silver intermingled, with vermilion and purple crowded together, a violation of the precepts or not?" The Master said: "What a fine path of entry!" Fayan said: "Hereafter you will have five hundred monastics, and be honored by kings and lords." Soon afterward, the Master made his bows, took leave, and rested his staff at an ancient monastery in Quzhou, reading through the Great Canon of Scriptures. In this first year of Guangshun, King Zhongyi of Wuyue, Hongshu, invited the Master into his residence to receive the bodhisattva precepts, conferring upon him the title of Chan Master Cihua Dinghui. He constructed a great monastery on the South Mountain named Huiri Yongming and invited the Master to reside there. The Master requested that the Arhats below the pagoda be transferred to the new monastery, which matched a prior dream of the king; thereupon the two characters "Yingzhen" were added to the Master's title. The Master passed into quiescence in the fifth year of the Xiande era of the Zhou. The Master was the dharma heir of Chan Master Fayan Yi.