釋氏稽古略 4.246

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宋冬治泰陵知。登封縣樓并請因餘力治嵩山少林道場。達磨初祖之居也。自監司郡縣百執事下逮士庶工賈不挽而同。一朝而具名曰面壁庵。林出芝十二本。華各異色。甘露雨于池。夜有光四起屬天合為大陳。東西數十里。后山居士陳師道記曰。子孔氏之門顏閔冉皆無傳。仲弓之後有荀卿。曾輿之後有孟軻。端本賜之後有莊休。而荀孟莊之後無聞焉。李氏之傳關尹。尹之傳復無聞焉。釋自能仁二十八世而為達磨。又六世而為曹溪。至於今又十有五世矣。而儒老子之徒欲校其源委誤矣（后山文集）。

In winter, the Song dynasty constructed the Tailin Mausoleum. The magistrate of Dengfeng County, Lou Bing, requested that the leftover labor be utilized to repair the bodhimaṇḍa of Shaolin on Mount Song, which was the residence of the First Patriarch, Bodhidharma. From the surveillance offices, prefectures, and counties down to all functionaries, gentry, commoners, artisans, and merchants, without being coerced, they united together. In a single morning it was completed, and named the Wall-Facing Hermitage. The forest produced twelve stems of magical mushrooms, each blossom having a different color. Sweet dew rained down upon the pool, and at night lights arose on all four sides reaching the sky, uniting into a vast expanse extending several tens of li from east to west. Layman Houshan, Chen Shidao, recorded it, saying: "Among the gate of Master Kong, Yan, Min, and Ran left no transmissions; after Zhonggong there was Xun Qing; after Zeng Yu there was Meng Ke; after Duanmu Ci there was Zhuang Zhou; but after Xun, Meng, and Zhuang, nothing further was heard of. Li's [Laozi's] transmission reached Yin Xi the Guardian of the Pass, and after Yin Xi's transmission, again nothing further was heard of. As for the Śākya, from the Capable and Benevolent One (Śākyamuni) it was twenty-eight generations to Bodhidharma, and another six generations to Caoxi, and up to the present day it has been another fifteen generations. Yet the followers of the Confucians and Laozi wish to compare their origins and developments—how mistaken they are!" (Collected Works of Houshan).