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宋春二月。帝幸上天竺。展敬觀世音菩薩。問住持若訥曰。何故歲修金光明懺。訥曰。大梵尊天是娑婆世界主。釋提桓因天帝中御三十三天。以臨下土。四鎮天王共誓護法護民。故佛為諸天說金光明三昧。此帝王盛世之典也。朝家香火故宜歲歲行之。帝悅擢訥右街僧錄賜錢二萬。即開山石晉僧道翊故居。建十六觀堂。勅翰林學士樓鑰作記按圖。亦建於禁中。次年四月八佛誕日。宣訥請五十僧。入內觀堂行護國金光明三昧。齋罷命訥說法。帝悅進左街僧錄。號慧光法師。僧賜帛各一疋。自是歲歲如來誕日例賜帛五十疋。付上天竺。遵修佛事。乾道六年十一月御書靈感觀音之寺靈感觀音寶殿十二大字。賜上天竺。昭揭山門。乾道九年正月七日。宣訥入對選德殿。午初引見賜坐。帝曰。歲元曾去齋菩薩。訥曰。已領聖恩。帝曰。光明懺科儀如何。訥曰。經中有理懺有事懺。理懺者。端坐究心。是以曰業障如霜露。皆從妄想生。端坐念實相。慧日能消除。事懺者有五。謹自正心。誠意思惟大乘甚深空義。從善如流改過不吝。是修第一懺悔。孝事父母以先四海。是修第二懺悔。正法治世不枉人民。是修第三懺悔。於六齋日境內不殺。是修第四懺悔。深信因果心存因果。不忘靈山付囑。是修第五懺悔。不必剋期禮拜。但能行此五者。以事契理。是名第一義懺悔。帝大喜曰。甚有開發。帝曰。每日講甚經。訥曰。妙法蓮華經。帝曰。七卷經妙在何處。訥曰。為令眾生開示悟入佛之知見。不曾動著本體。點鐵成金。直指人心見性成佛。帝悅。奏未時。訥謝恩下殿。淳熙元年。帝給內帑錢二萬緡。付上天竺建藏殿。賜印福州經一藏。命皇太子書殿榜。曰法輪寶藏（普見上竺紀勝）。淳熙二年春三月。帝幸上竺。展敬觀世音菩薩。建護國金光明道場賜白雲堂印一顆。主管教門（靈隱直指堂印）。夏六月一日。宣訥入對內觀堂。帝曰。近看寶積經。其文何廣。訥曰。華嚴般若寶積涅槃皆為大機說法。文長義廣。帝曰。楞嚴深造淵微。何故說得如此好又說得如此瀾翻。訥曰。佛乃識達本源者也。從體起用。以無盡藏三昧。說默一如。中使奏未時。訥退。淳熙十一年。訥匃老進左右街都僧錄。退居竺山彌陀興福院。詔以嗣法高弟首座師覺補右街鑒義。繼席住持。淳熙十六年宣覺入留內觀堂。七日講天台圓頓止觀。光宗紹熙初。帝居重華宮。許訥肩輿出入。註金剛般若經進呈。光宗御製贊文。至紹熙二年十月一日。訥歸寂。世壽八十二歲。僧臘六十九夏。葬彌陀興福院。給事中宋之瑞作行業碑。嗣法諸弟子曰僧錄（師覺）。廣慧妙珪虛庵有宏．石磵從戒等。淳熙十四年十月二十二日。帝於內觀堂書般若心經一卷。至寧宗嘉定二年四月十日。申錫御寶賜上竺僧錄妙珪。參知政事樓鑰給事中鄒應跋後。藏於上竺（紀勝碑刻）。

In the Song, in the second month of spring, the emperor visited Upper Tianzhu to pay homage to the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. He asked the abbot Ruone: "Why do you perform the Golden Light Repentance every year?" Ne replied: "The honored god Mahābrahmā is the lord of the sahā world; Śakra Devānām Indra, emperor of the gods, centrally governs the thirty-three heavens to look down upon the earthly realm; and the four guardian Heavenly Kings together vowed to protect the Dharma and protect the people. Therefore the Buddha preached the Golden Light Samādhi for the gods. This is a ceremony for emperors and kings in times of flourishing peace; it is fitting that the imperial court's incense and lamp offerings be performed year after year." The emperor was pleased, promoted Ne to Monk Record Keeper of the Right Street, and bestowed twenty thousand cash. On the former site of the Later Jin monk Daoyi, who originally founded the mountain, a Hall of the Sixteen Contemplations was erected. Hanlin Academician Lou Yue was commanded to compose a record according to the plans, and one was also built within the palace. On the eighth day of the fourth month, the Buddha's birthday, in the following year, Ne was summoned and requested fifty monks to enter the Inner Contemplation Hall to perform the Golden Light Samādhi for the Protection of the State. When the feast concluded, he ordered Ne to preach the Dharma. The emperor was pleased and advanced him to Monk Record Keeper of the Left Street, granting the title Dharma Master Huiguang; each monk was granted one bolt of silk. From this time on, it became customary each year on the Tathāgata's birthday to bestow fifty bolts of silk and dispatch them to Upper Tianzhu to observe and practice Buddhist services. In the eleventh month of the sixth year of the Qiandao era, the emperor personally wrote the twelve large characters: "Lingan Guanyin zhi Si" (Temple of the Efficacious Avalokiteśvara) and "Lingan Guanyin Baodian" (Precious Hall of the Efficacious Avalokiteśvara), bestowing them on Upper Tianzhu to be prominently displayed on the mountain gate. On the seventh day of the first month of the ninth year of the Qiandao era, Ne was summoned to an audience in the Xuande Hall; at the beginning of the hour of the horse (11:00 a.m.) he was admitted and granted a seat. The emperor said: "At the new year, have you gone to present a vegetarian feast to the Bodhisattva?" Ne said: "I have already received your Sagely grace." The emperor asked: "What is the ritual procedure of the Golden Light Repentance like?" Ne said: "In the sūtra there is repentance based on principle and repentance based on phenomena. Repentance based on principle means sitting upright and examining the mind; hence it is said: 'Karmic hindrances are like frost and dew; they all arise from delusive thought. Sit upright and contemplate true reality; the sun of wisdom can eliminate them.' Repentance based on phenomena has five [aspects]: diligently rectifying one's own mind and sincerely reflecting upon the Great Vehicle's profound meaning of emptiness, following good like flowing water and not begrudging the correction of faults—this is practicing the first repentance; serving parents with filial piety so as to guide all within the four seas—this is practicing the second repentance; governing the world with the true Dharma and not wronging the people—this is practicing the third repentance; not killing within one's realm on the six fasting days—this is practicing the fourth repentance; having deep faith in cause and effect, keeping cause and effect in mind, and not forgetting the entrustment at the Vulture Peak—this is practicing the fifth repentance. One need not set fixed dates for bowing; if one can merely practice these five, using phenomena to tally with principle, this is called the supreme repentance of the ultimate truth." The emperor was delighted and said: "This brings great illumination!" The emperor asked: "What sūtra do you lecture on daily?" Ne said: "The Lotus Sūtra." The emperor asked: "Where does the wonder of the seven-fascicle sūtra lie?" Ne said: "It is to cause sentient beings to open, reveal, awaken to, and enter into the Buddha's knowledge and vision; without ever moving the fundamental substance, it turns iron into gold, pointing directly to the human mind to see one's nature and attain Buddhahood." The emperor was pleased. It was announced to be the hour of the sheep (1:00 p.m.); Ne gave thanks for imperial favor and stepped down from the hall. In the first year of the Chunxi era, the emperor provided twenty thousand strings of cash from the inner treasury and dispatched them to Upper Tianzhu to build a Canon Hall, bestowed one printing of the Fuzhou Canon, and ordered the Crown Prince to inscribe the placard for the hall, which read: "Precious Treasury of the Wheel of the Dharma" (widely found in the Record of the Scenic Splendors of Upper Tianzhu). In the third month of spring in the second year of the Chunxi era, the emperor visited Upper Tianzhu to pay homage to the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, established a Bodhimaṇḍa of the Golden Light for the Protection of the State, and bestowed a seal of the Baiyun Hall to superintend the doctrinal school (the seal of Zhizhi Hall of Lingyin). On the first day of the sixth month in summer, Ne was summoned to an audience in the Inner Contemplation Hall. The emperor said: "Recently I have been reading the Ratnakūṭa Sūtra; why is its text so vast?" Ne said: "The Avataṃsaka, Prajñā, Ratnakūṭa, and Nirvāṇa sūtras all expound the Dharma for those of great capacity; their text is long and their meaning is vast." The emperor said: "The Śūraṅgama deeply plumbs the profound and subtle; why is it spoken so well and yet surges like billows?" Ne said: "The Buddha is one who understands and reaches the fundamental source; giving rise to function from substance, by means of the inexhaustible treasury samādhi, his speech and silence are as one." An attendant eunuch announced the hour of the sheep, and Ne withdrew. In the eleventh year of the Chunxi era, Ne requested to retire on grounds of old age and was promoted to Grand Monk Record Keeper of the Left and Right Streets, retiring to reside at the Amitābha Xingfu Cloister on Mount Tianzhu. An imperial decree appointed his eminent Dharma-heir disciple, the head monk Shijue, to fill the position of Monastic Evaluator of the Right Street and succeed to the abbot's seat. In the sixteenth year of the Chunxi era, Jue was summoned and detained in the Inner Contemplation Hall, lecturing for seven days on the Tiantai Perfect and Sudden Cessation and Contemplation. At the beginning of Emperor Guangzong's Shaoxi era, when the emperor resided in the Chonghua Palace, he permitted Ne to enter and exit in a sedan chair. [Ne] annotated the Diamond Prajñā Sūtra and presented it; Emperor Guangzong composed a panegyric for it. On the first day of the tenth month in the second year of the Shaoxi era, Ne entered quiescence, at the age of eighty-two, with a monastic seniority of sixty-nine summers. He was buried at the Amitābha Xingfu Cloister. Supervising Secretary Song Zhirui composed his Stele of Conduct. His various Dharma-heir disciples were the Monk Record Keeper (Shijue), Guanghui Miaogui, Xu'an Youhong, Shijian Congjie, and others. On the twenty-second day of the tenth month in the fourteenth year of the Chunxi era, the emperor wrote out one scroll of the Heart of Wisdom Sūtra in the Inner Contemplation Hall. On the tenth day of the fourth month in the second year of the Jiading era under Emperor Ningzong, it was bestowed again with the imperial seal upon the Upper Tianzhu Monk Record Keeper Miaogui. Vice Grand Councillor Lou Yue and Supervising Secretary Zou Ying wrote colophons at the end, and it was stored at Upper Tianzhu (from the Stele Inscription of the Scenic Splendors).