[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) › 4.169 # 釋氏稽古略 4.169 釋氏稽古略 4.169 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.169](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.169) 汴京自周朝毀寺。太祖建隆間復興。兩街止是南山律部慈恩賢首疏鈔義學而已。士大夫聰明超軼者。皆厭聞名相因果。而天台止觀達磨禪宗未行也。淳化（太宗年號）以來。四明尊者知禮。天竺懺主遵式。行道東南。而觀心宗眼照耿天下。翰林楊億晁逈首發明之。至是內侍李允寧奏施汴宅一區創興禪席。帝賜額曰十方淨因禪院。帝留意空宗。下三省定議。召有道者住持。歐陽公修陳公師孟奏請廬山圓通寺居訥允寧。親自馳詔下江州。訥稱目疾不起。常益敬重聽舉自代。訥乃以懷璉應詔（僧寶傳）。 > In Bianjing, since the destruction of monasteries during the \[Later\] Zhou dynasty, they were revived during the Jianlong era of Emperor Taizu. The monasteries of the Two Streets merely engaged in the scholastic study of the commentaries on the Nanshan Vinaya school and the Cien and Xianshou \[doctrines\]. Learned scholar-officials who excelled in intelligence were all weary of hearing about terminology and cause-and-effect, while the Tiantai stopping and seeing and the Bodhidharma Chan school had not yet flourished. From the Chunhua era (the reign title of Taizong) onwards, Venerable Zhili of Siming and Master of Repentance Zunshi of Tianzhu practiced the Way in the southeast, and the eye of the school of mind-contemplation shone brightly across the realm. Hanlin academicians Yang Yi and Chao Jiong were the first to elucidate it. At this time, the Palace Eunuch Li Yunning memorialised, donating a residence in Bianjing to establish a Chan assembly. The emperor bestowed an inscribed plaque reading 'Shifang Jingyin Chan Monastery'. The emperor turned his mind to the school of emptiness and ordered the Three Departments to deliberate and select a person possessing the Way to serve as abbot. Lord Ouyang Xiu and Lord Chen Shimeng submitted a memorial recommending Junu of Yuantong Monastery on Mount Lu. Yunning personally rushed with the imperial edict down to Jiangzhou. Nu excused himself on account of eye disease and would not rise \[to the summons\]. \[The court\] respected him all the more and allowed him to recommend someone to take his place. Nu therefore recommended Huailian to respond to the imperial decree (Sengbao zhuan). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.168](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.168) - [Next: 4.170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.170) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037~en-mt.4.169) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.169](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.169) · Pramāṇa