[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [續高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060) › 21.26 # 續高僧傳 21.26 續高僧傳 21.26 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [21.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.26) 釋通幽。姓趙氏。河東蒲坂人。幼齡遺世早慕玄風。弱冠加年遂霑僧仵。而貞心苦節寒暑不𧇊。尋師訪道夷嶮無變。遇周齊淩亂遠涉江皐。業架金陵素氣攸遠。及大隋開運。還歸渭陰。味法泰其生平。操行分其容止。至於弘宣示教。則以毘尼唱首。調御心神仍用三昧遊適。故戒定兩藏總萃胸襟。學門再敞遠近斯赴。晚貫籍延興。時當草創。土木瓦石工匠同舉。而事歸天造形命未淪。隨所運為無非損喪。幽戒約內結。仁洽外弘。立四大井各施漉具。凡有施用躬自詳觀。馳赴百工曉夜無厭。皆將送蟲豸得存性命。故延興一寺獨免刑殘。自餘締構焉難復敘。而潔己自勵罕附斯倫。每欲開經必盥手及腕齊肘已後猶從常淨。舉經對目臂不下垂。房宇覆處未甞澡漱。涕唾反咽不棄寺中。便利洗淨乃終其報。又自生常不用巾幞。手濕則任其自乾。三衣則重被其體。自外道具僅支時要。每自嗟曰。生不功一片之善。死不酬一毫之累。虛負靈神。何期誤也。遂誡弟子曰。吾變常之後。幸以殘身遺諸禽獸。儻蒙少福冀滅餘殃。忽以大業元年正月十五日。端坐卒於延興寺房。春秋五十有七。弟子等從其先志。林葬於終南之山至相前峯。火燎餘骸立塔存矣。 > Shi Tongyou, whose surname was Zhao, was a native of Puban in Hedong. In his youth he abandoned the world, having early on admired the profound wind \[of the Dharma\]. Upon coming of age, he joined the ranks of the Saṅgha. His upright mind and bitter discipline did not wane through winter or summer; in seeking masters and inquiring after the Way, he never altered through ease or peril. Encountering the turmoil of the Zhou and Qi dynasties, he traveled far across the riverbanks of the Yangzi. His achievements towered in Jinling, his pristine demeanor far-reaching. When the Great Sui inaugurated its era, he returned to the north of the Wei River. He savored Fatai's lifelong standard, and apportioned his deportment according to \[Fatai's\] conduct. In propagating the teachings, he placed the Vinaya foremost; for taming the mind and spirit, he always took recourse in roaming through samādhi. Thus the two piṭakas of precepts and concentration were united in his breast. When the gates of his teachings reopened, students flocked from near and far. In his later years he was registered at the Yanxing Monastery. At that time, during the monastery's initial construction, earthwork, timber, tiles, and stones were all handled together by the artisans. Yet as these works belonged to physical creation while physical life had not yet expired, wherever operations were undertaken, harm and loss to living creatures were inevitable. You held the monastic prohibitions within and extended benevolence outward. He dug four great wells, fitting each with water-straining devices. Whenever water was drawn, he personally inspected it closely. Hurrying among the myriad craftsmen day and night without wearying, he escorted away the insects and crawling creatures so that their lives were preserved. Thus Yanxing was the sole monastery spared from inflicting slaughter. As for his other constructions, they are difficult to recount in full. He disciplined himself with purity, rarely matching the ordinary run of monks. Whenever he wished to open a sūtra, he washed his hands up to the wrists, and after washing up to the elbows, he still observed normal purification. When holding a sūtra before his eyes, his arms never hung down. Under the roof of his chamber, he never once washed or rinsed; phlegm and saliva he swallowed back down, never casting them out in the monastery. Only when using the latrine did he perform cleansing, continuing this until the end of his life. Moreover, throughout his life he never used kerchiefs or turbans; when his hands were wet, he let them dry naturally. He wore his three robes layered on his body, and beyond these, his implements barely sufficed for the needs of the moment. He would constantly sigh to himself: 'In life I have not achieved a single shred of good, and in death I cannot repay the burden of a single hair. How greatly I have erred in making vain use of this spiritual mind!' He then instructed his disciples: 'After I pass away, please cast my remaining body out to the birds and beasts; if I may gain a little merit, I hope to extinguish my remaining transgressions.' Suddenly, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of the Daye era, he passed away seated upright in his chamber at the Yanxing Monastery at the age of fifty-seven. His disciples followed his prior wishes and performed a forest burial on the front peak of Zhixiang on Zhongnan Mountain. The remaining bones from the cremation were collected, and a stupa was erected to preserve them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 21.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.25) - [Next: 21.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.27) - [Up: 21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060~en-mt.21.26) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.26) · Pramāṇa