釋鑑稽古略續集 1.156

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佛光大師　諱志德。號雲巖。東昌人。十二受經於海聞和尚。習慈恩宗旨於法照禧公。盡得其蘊。至元間。世祖召見賜宴并紫方袍。命主天禧旌忠二剎日。講法華華嚴唯什金剛等疏。特賜佛光大師之號。與七眾授戒。必令其立誓無犯。遇歲儉煮糜粥。以食餓殍數萬人。居天禧三十餘年。一衲一履終身不易。過午不食。夜則危坐以苦誦喪明。忽夢梵僧迎。居內院高座。空中散花因示疾。是年二月二十七誦之不輒。頃之辭眾安坐而化。世壽八十八。龕留三七顏貌紅潤如生。闍維舍利無數。塔於張家山。趙孟頫為記。

Great Master Foguang: His monastic name was Zhide, and his style was Yunyan; he was a native of Dongchang. At twelve, he received the sūtras from Venerable Haiwen. He studied the doctrine of the Ci'en school under Venerable Xi of Fazhao, fully grasping its deep essentials. During the Zhiyuan era, Emperor Shizu granted him an audience and bestowed a feast as well as a purple square robe. He was ordered to preside over the two monasteries of Tianxi and Jingzhong; daily he lectured on commentaries to the Lotus Sūtra, Avataṃsaka Sūtra, Consciousness-Only, Diamond Sūtra, and others. He was specially bestowed the title Great Master Foguang. When bestowing the precepts on the seven assemblies, he invariably had them take vows not to violate them. In years of famine, he boiled congee to feed tens of thousands of starving people. He resided at Tianxi for over thirty years; with one robe and one pair of sandals, he never changed them his entire life. He did not eat past noon. At night, he sat upright, and from arduous chanting he lost his sight. Suddenly, he dreamed of an Indian monk welcoming him to dwell on a high seat in the Inner Court, with flowers raining down from the sky, whereupon he manifested illness. On the twenty-seventh day of the second month of this year, while chanting incessantly, he soon took leave of the assembly, sat peacefully, and transformed. His worldly age was eighty-eight. His reliquary was kept for twenty-one days, and his countenance was as fresh and ruddy as if alive. After cremation, his relics (śarīra) were innumerable. A pagoda was erected for him at Mount Zhangjia. Zhao Mengfu composed the record.