釋氏稽古略 3.201

3.201

Buddhist Registry. In the second month of the second year of the Yuanhe era, it was decreed that Dharma Master Duanfu take charge of the rituals of Buddhist services in the inner palace and record the monastic affairs of the Left and Right Streets. The office of Buddhist Registry began with Fu (Old History of the Tang Book). Chan Master Daowu of Tianhuang Monastery east of the city of Jingnan: Fu Zai, Court Harmonizer of the Bells in the Tang, composed his stele inscription, which states: 'Daowu was surnamed Zhang and was a native of Dongyang in Wuzhou. He left home at the age of fourteen, shaving his head under a bhadanta in Mingzhou. At twenty-five, he received the precepts at Zhulin Monastery in Hangzhou. He first studied under Guoyi at Mount Jingshan, staying for five years. In the eleventh year of the Dali era of Daizong, he lived in seclusion on Mount Damei in Siming. In the early years of the Jianzhong era of Dezong, he went to Jiangxi to pay homage to Mazu. In the second year, he visited Shitou and attained great awakening. He then lived in seclusion on Mount Ziling in Dangyang. Later, at the abandoned Tianhuang Monastery east of Jingnan city, a monk named Lingjian invited him to reside there. Reaching the thirteenth day of the fourth month in the second year of the Yuanhe era, he entered quiescence due to back pain, at the age of sixty and with thirty-five summer retreats. He had three dharma heirs: Huizhen, Wenben, and Youxian. Today, Tianhuang Lane still exists east of the city of Jingnan' (Five Lamps).