釋氏稽古略 4.269

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宋東都妙慧尼寺住持淨智大師慧光。生成都范氏。其著書號唐鑑。乃其叔父也。是年帝自禁中以法衣施諸禪長老。光亦預焉。因命資次說法。而光受當其末。陞座問答罷顧視大眾曰。若論說禪說道。則諸大禪師已說了也。教山僧到這裏說箇甚麼即得。豈不見先德道千種言萬般解。只要教君長不昧。然雖如是畢竟如何。遂以法衣覆頂。良久云。衲帔蒙頭萬事休。此時山僧都不會便下座。於時緇素聽者萬計。靡不嘆服。所以韓舍人子蒼銘光之塔稱其多聞善辯焉。塔剏於豫章西山聖相之原（雲臥紀談）。

Under the Song, the abbess of Miaohui Convent in the Eastern Capital, Great Master Jingzhi, Huiguang, was born of the Fan family of Chengdu. The one who wrote the book entitled *Mirror of the Tang* was her paternal uncle. In this year, from within the palace, the Emperor bestowed Dharma robes on various Chan elders, and Guang was also included. An order was then given for them to preach the Dharma according to their seniority, and Guang was placed at the very end. Having ascended the seat and finished the questions and answers, she looked around at the assembly and said: "If it comes to speaking of Chan and speaking of the Way, the great Chan masters have already finished speaking. What could you have this mountain monk come up here and say that would hit the mark? Have you not seen what the former worthy said: 'A thousand sorts of words and myriad kinds of explanations are merely meant to keep you perpetually unenlightened'? However, although it is like this, what is it ultimately?" She then covered her head with her Dharma robe, and after a long silence said: "With the patched robe hooding my head, all affairs are finished; at this moment, this mountain monk understands nothing at all." She then stepped down from the seat. At that time, the monks and laypeople listening numbered in the tens of thousands, and none failed to sigh in admiration. For this reason, Drafter Han Zicang, when composing the inscription for Guang's stūpa, praised her as being widely learned and skilled in debate. The stūpa was established on the plain of Shengxiang in the Western Hills of Yuzhang.