釋鑑稽古略續集 1.212

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竺源法師　諱水盛。字竺源。自號無住翁。樂平人。姓范。母徐。生時祥光照室。依羅山常公受度。謁月庭忠公。見孤舟濟師自信法決可證。因發誓云。吾此生不能作佛。當入無間獄也。由是力參發悟者幾回。濟公記之云。爾後當大弘吾宗也。天曆間聘師。主西湖妙果寺。一時公卿與師為方外交甚篤。是歲四月二十四日書偈而逝。壽七十三。師囑學徒甞云。要當洞明諸佛心宗。行解相應云。

Dharma Master Zhuyuan, whose personal name was Shuisheng, whose courtesy name was Zhuyuan, and who called himself Old Man Wuzhu, was a man of Leping surnamed Fan. His mother was of the Xu family. When he was born, an auspicious light illuminated the room. He took the tonsure under the venerable Chang of Luoshan. He visited the venerable Zhong of Yueting. Seeing Master Ji of Guzhou, he gained full faith that the Dharma could certainly be realized. Thereupon he made a vow, saying: "If in this life I cannot become a buddha, I shall enter Avīci Hell." From then on, he investigated with utmost effort and awakened several times. Master Ji recorded a prophecy for him, saying: "Later you will greatly propagate our school." During the Tianli reign era, the master was invited to serve as abbot of Miaoguo Monastery on West Lake. For a time, ministers and lords maintained very close friendships with the master as friends beyond worldly concerns. On the twenty-fourth day of the fourth month of this year, he wrote a verse and passed away at the age of seventy-three. Exhorting his students, the master once said, "You must thoroughly penetrate the mind-lineage of all buddhas, so that practice and understanding accord with each other."