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臨濟下五世汾陽太子院禪師。名善昭。太原俞氏子。剃髮受具。杖策遊方。所至少留隨機叩發。歷參知識七十一員。後見首山念禪師。契悟玄旨。遊衡湘及襄沔間。每為郡守以名剎致師。凡歷八請。師皆不赴。洎首山沒。西河道俗遣僧契聰迎請住持。師閉關高臥。聰排闥而入。讓之曰。佛法大事靖退小節。先師棄世今何時而欲安眠哉。師曰。非公不聞此語乃赴其請。至是天聖二年。龍德府尹李侯致師住承天。价三返不起。价再至辟函。師曰。老病業已不出山。借往當先後之。价曰。唯師所擇。師令具饌且趣裝曰。吾先行矣。停筯而化。闍維收舍利建塔。師嗣首山念禪師。有曰十智同真者。師之語也（本傳）。

Chan Master Shanzhao of the Taizi Monastery in Fenyang was the fifth generation under Linji. He was a son of the Yu family of Taiyuan. He shaved his hair and received full ordination, and holding his staff, he wandered widely. Wherever he arrived, he lingered little, probing and inspiring according to circumstances. He visited seventy-one spiritual friends in succession. Later, he saw Chan Master Nian of Shoushan, and attained an accord with the abstruse purport. He traveled through the Heng and Xiang regions, and between the Xiang and Mian rivers. Frequently, prefectural governors sought to invite him to famous monasteries; through a total of eight invitations, the master did not go to any. When Shoushan passed away, the monastics and laity of Xihe dispatched the monk Qicong to welcome and invite him to take up the abbacy. The master closed his gate and lay down in repose. Qicong pushed open the door and entered, rebuking him: 'The Buddha Dharma is a great matter; calm withdrawal is a minor scruple. Our late teacher has departed this world—what time is it now that you wish to sleep peacefully?' The master said: 'Had it not been for you, I would not have heard these words.' He then accepted the invitation. Arriving at the second year of Tiansheng, Marquis Li, the Prefect of Longde Superior Prefecture, invited the master to reside at Chengtian Monastery. The messenger went back and forth three times, but the master did not arise. When the messenger arrived again to present the letter, the master said: 'Being old and ill, I already do not leave the mountain. If I am to go, we must go one before the other.' The messenger said: 'It is entirely for the master to choose.' The master ordered food prepared, and speeding his packing, he said: 'I shall go first!' He laid down his chopsticks and was transformed. They cremated him, collected his relics, and built a stupa. The master was a Dharma heir of Chan Master Nian of Shoushan. The teaching called 'The Ten Wisdoms Identical with the Real' consists of the master's words (from his primary biography).