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九月二十日。杭州龍井山辯才法師入寂。師名元淨。自仁宗嘉祐末歷治平熙寧三朝。住上天竺一十七年。道滿朝野。元豐間辭而復住又三年。晚居龍井。飲食起居之際。眉間流光。皆舍利。謂參寥子道潛曰。吾淨業已成。越七日無疾右脇而逝。門下侍郎蘇轍銘其塔。龍圖閣學士知隸州蘇軾祭之。文曰。孔老異門。儒釋分宮。又於其間禪律相攻。我見大海有南北東。江河雖殊其至則同。維大法師自戒定通。律無持破垢淨皆空。講無辯訥事理皆融。如不動山。如常撞鐘。如一月水。如萬竅風。八十一年生雖有終。遇物而應。施則無窮。我初適吳尚見五公。講有辯（海月也）臻（南屏也）禪有璉（大覺也）嵩（明教也）。後二十年獨餘此翁。此又去矣。後生誰宗（東坡文集龍并碑記）。

On the twentieth day of the ninth month, Dharma Master Biancai of Longjing Mountain in Hangzhou entered quiescence. The master's name was Yuanjing. From the end of Renzong's Jiayou era through the three reigns of Zhiping and Xining, he resided at Upper Tianzhu for seventeen years; his virtue filled both the court and the countryside. During the Yuanfeng era, he resigned and then resumed residence for another three years, later living at Longjing. In his daily activities of eating and resting, light flowed from between his eyebrows, yielding relics. He said to Canliaozi Daqian, "My pure karma is already complete." After seven days, without illness, he passed away lying on his right side. Su Zhe, Vice Director of the Chancellery, composed the inscription for his stupa. Su Shi, Academician of the Hall of the Dragon Diagram and Prefect of Hangzhou, offered a funeral sacrifice for him. The text said: "Confucius and Laozi had different gates; Confucianism and Buddhism divide into separate realms. Moreover, between them Chan and Vinaya attack one another. I see the great sea has south, north, and east; though the rivers differ, where they arrive is the same. Only the Great Dharma Master from precepts and concentration penetrated all: in Vinaya there is neither keeping nor breaking, defilement and purity are both empty; in exposition there is neither eloquence nor hesitation, phenomena and principle are both harmonized. Like an unmoving mountain, like a bell regularly struck, like the water reflecting the single moon, like the wind through the ten thousand hollows. Though eighty-one years of life have an end, responding to things as they meet, his giving was inexhaustible. When I first came to Wu, I still saw five masters: in exposition there were Bian (Haiyue) and Zhen (Nanping); in Chan there were Lian (Dajue) and Song (Mingjiao). After twenty years, only this elder remained. Now he too is gone; whom will future generations look up to as their model?" (Dongpo wenji, Longjing bei ji).