釋鑑稽古略續集 3.36

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心淵法師　諱居敬。字心淵。別號蘭雪。學通內外。善屬文精嚴律部。禮金陵大報恩寺一雨和尚。後參杭州集源法師。永樂初奉詔校大藏經。預修會典。已而住持上海廣福講寺。遷松江普照。大開法席一十三載。建大雄寶殿。海月堂。三解脫門。廊廡重軒。精舍香積。煥然新之。七眾瞻仰。道風大扇。

Dharma Master Xinyuan: his taboo name was Jujing, his style name was Xinyuan, and his alternate sobriquet was Lanxue. His learning encompassed both internal and external texts; he was skilled in literary composition and strictly observant of the vinaya. He bowed to Venerable Yiyu of Da Bao'en Monastery in Jinling, and later studied under Dharma Master Jiyuan of Hangzhou. In the early Yongle era, he received an imperial decree to collate the Great Canon of scriptures and participated in compiling the collected statutes. Soon afterward, he became abbot of Guangfu Lecture Monastery in Shanghai, and then transferred to Puzhao [Monastery] in Songjiang, where he broadly opened the Dharma assembly for thirteen years. He built the Mahāvīra Hall, Haiyue Hall, the Three Gates of Liberation, colonnades and layered balconies, meditation cells, and monastic kitchens, renewing them splendidly. The seven assemblies looked up to him with reverence, and his virtuous teachings spread widely.