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宋華亭余山馬𭗈禪師。名法寧。生山東密州莒縣李氏。幼歲投沂州天寧妙空明公得度。住沂州馬𭗈山淨居寺。紹興初。航海抵華亭青龍鎮。有宦居察判章衮母夫人高氏。夢天人曰古佛來也。翌旦師至。迎之止錢氏園。師乃建精舍。掘基得鐵磬斷碑佛像之應。華亭令柳約申明所司奏賜所建寺額曰淨居。往明州省妙空于雪竇。庵於補陀別峯。曰青山（今小保寧）郡守莫將請主吉祥。初哲宗元符間。余山有精舍曰靈峯。請部符改額曰昭慶禪院。右丞朱諤致師開山住持。遷明州廣慧。復回昭慶。至是丙子年正月八日入寂。塔全身方丈之東偏。世壽七十六歲。僧臘五十九夏。嗣雪竇明禪師。明嗣長蘆和。和嗣法雲本。雲門宗派（五燈會元）。

In the Song, Chan Master Matou of Mount Yushan in Huating was named Faning. He was born into the Li family of Ju County in Mizhou, Shandong. In his early years, he went to Venerable Miaokong Ming of Tianning in Yizhou and was ordained. He resided at Jingju Monastery on Mount Matou in Yizhou. In the beginning of the Shaoxing era, he traveled by sea to Qinglong Town in Huating. Lady Gao, the mother of the Investigation Judge Zhang Gun, who was residing there in retirement, dreamed of a deva saying: "An ancient Buddha has arrived." The next morning the master arrived, and she welcomed him to stay in the Qian family garden. The master then built a vihāra, and upon excavating the foundation, discovered the auspicious signs of an iron chime, a broken stele, and a Buddha image. The Magistrate of Huating, Liu Yue, reported this clearly to the relevant authorities, who petitioned for an imperial bestowal of the name "Jingju" for the constructed monastery. The master went to Mingzhou to visit Miaokong at Xuedou, and built a hermitage on another peak of Putuo called Qingshan (now Little Baoning). The commandery prefect Mo Jiang invited him to preside over Jixiang. Earlier, during the Yuanfu era of Zhezong, there was a vihāra on Mount Yushan called Lingfeng; applying for a ministry credential, its plaque was changed to "Zhaoqing Chan Cloister." Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs Zhu E invited the master to be the founding abbot. He later transferred to Guanghui in Mingzhou, and then returned to Zhaoqing. Down to this year, Bingzi, on the eighth day of the first month, he entered into silence. His whole body was stupaed to the east of the abbot's quarters. His worldly age was seventy-six; his monastic seniority was fifty-nine summers. He was a Dharma heir of Chan Master Xuedou Ming; Ming was an heir of Changlu He; He was an heir of Fayun Ben, of the Yunmen lineage (Wudeng huiyuan).