釋氏稽古略 4.369

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明州天童應庵禪師。名曇華。生蘄州江氏。生而奇傑。年十七出家於東禪剃髮。受具遍參知識。謁圜悟禪師於雲居。悟入蜀指之見彰教隆禪師。隆移虎丘。師侍行半載間。頓悟玄奧。累遷巨剎。住歸宗日。大慧在梅陽。寄師偈曰。坐斷金輪第一峰。千妖百。怪盡潛踪。年來又得真消息。報道楊岐正脈通。其歸重如此。孝宗隆興元年六月十三日。奄然而化。塔全身於寺山。嗣虎丘隆禪師。隆諱紹隆。嗣圜悟勤禪師。臨濟派也（五燈會元）。

Chan Master Ying'an of Tiantong in Mingzhou was named Tanhua, born into the Jiang family of Qizhou. He was extraordinary from birth. At the age of seventeen, he left home at Dongchan to shave his head, received full ordination, and traveled widely to visit wise teachers. He visited Chan Master Yuanwu at Yunju; Yuanwu was entering Shu and directed him to see Chan Master Zhangjiao Long. Long moved to Huqiu; the master served him for half a year and suddenly awakened to the profound mystery. He was promoted successively to great monasteries. When he resided at Guizong, Dahui was in Meiyang and sent the master a gāthā: / 'Sitting firmly on the foremost peak of the golden wheel, / A thousand demons and a hundred monsters all hide their tracks. / In recent years, true news has arrived again: / Word comes that the orthodox lineage of Yangqi flows through.' / Such was the high regard he enjoyed. On the thirteenth day of the sixth month of the first year of the Longxing era of Emperor Xiaozong, he suddenly passed away. His whole body was enshrined in a stūpa on the monastery mountain. He was the dharma heir of Chan Master Huqiu Long. Long was named Shaolong, dharma heir of Chan Master Yuanwu Qin, of the Linji lineage (from the Wudeng Huiyuan).