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高僧傳 6.62

高僧傳 6.62

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6.62

[(丰*力)/石]資侍中秩,傳詔羊車各二人,遷等並有厚給。共事純儉,允愜時望,五眾肅清,六時無怠。至弘始七年,勅加親信伏身,白從各三十人。僧正之興,[(丰*力)/石]之始也。[(丰*力)/石]躬自步行,車輿以給老疾,所獲供䘏,常充眾用。雖年在秋方,而講說經律,勗眾無倦。以弘始之末,卒於長安大寺,春秋七十矣。

Sengqi was granted the rank of palace attendant, along with two heralds and two goat-carts, and Sengqian and the others were also given generous stipends. They conducted affairs with pure frugality, fully satisfying the expectations of the time; the five assemblies were disciplined and pure, never flagging through the six divisions of the day. In the seventh year of the Hongshi reign, by imperial decree he was additionally granted thirty personal bodyguards and thirty attendants in white robes. The rise of the saṃghapradhāna began with Sengqi. Sengqi went on foot in person and gave the carriages to the aged and infirm; the offerings and relief supplies he received were always applied to communal use. Although his years were in the autumn of life, he never grew weary of expounding the sūtras and vinaya or encouraging the community. At the end of the Hongshi reign, he died at the Great Monastery in Chang'an at the age of seventy.

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