釋氏稽古略 3.155

3.155

Heze. Chan Master Shenhui, a son of the Gao family of Xiangyang. At the age of fourteen he became a novice; visiting the Sixth Patriarch, he immediately obtained the Dharma. Soon after, he went to the Western Capital to receive full ordination. In the second year of Zhongzong's Jinglong era, he returned to Caoxi. In the twenty years after the Patriarch's decease, Caoxi's Sudden School sank into neglect in Jing and Wu, while Mount Song's Gradual Gate flourished in Qin and Luo. In the fourth year of Tianbao, the master entered the capital and composed the Xianzong ji (Record Revealing the Tenet) to distinguish the two schools: the southern Neng's Sudden School and the northern Xiu's Gradual School. Reaching this point, in the first year of Shangyuan, the master took leave of the assembly and suddenly passed away. He was buried at Longmen. An imperial decree ordered the construction of a stūpa compound, bestowing the title Zhenzong Bore. The master was a dharma heir of the Sixth Patriarch (Chuandeng). (Heze is Caozhou in Dongchang Circuit, Shandong; He [pronounced Ge] is in the territory of Yanzhou).