[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) › 28.29 # 續高僧傳 28.29 續高僧傳 28.29 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [28.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.28.29) 釋慧銓。姓蕭氏。今特進宋公瑀之兄子也。父仕隋為梁公。祖即梁明帝矣。性度恢簡志用冲粹。姑即隋煬之后也。自幼及長恒在宮闕。慕樂超世無因自達年既冠成。帝乃尚以秦孝王女為妻。非其願也。事不獲已。時行伉儷。及妻終後方遂夙心。以鄭氏東都預茲剃落。及武德初歲。方還京輦住莊嚴寺。廣聽眾部。而以攝論為心。頗懷篇什尤能草隷。隨筆所被用為模楷。故經題寺額。咸推仰之。兄鈞任東宮中舍。文才之舉朝廷攸屬。每歲春秋相携巖岫。觸興題篇連句同韻。時以為難兄弟也。又弟智證。出家同住。即宋公之兄太府卿之子也。略榮位之好欣懷道業。勤勤自課無擇昏曉。證與兄銓相次而卒。以家世信奉偏弘法華。同族尊卑咸所成誦。故蕭氏法華。皂素稱富。特進撰疏。總集十有餘家。採掇菁華揉以胸臆。勒成卷數常自敷弘。時召京輦名僧。指摘瑕累。或集親屬僧尼。數將二十。給惠以時四事無怠。故封祿所及惟存通濟。太府情好讀誦為先。故生至終誦盈萬遍雇人抄寫總有千部。每日朝參必使儐者執經在前。至於公事微隙。便就轉讀朝伍仰屬以為絕倫。自釋化東傳。流味彌遠。承受讀誦世罕伊人。蕭氏一門。可為天下模楷矣。 > Shi Huiquan, surnamed Xiao, was the nephew of Duke Song \[Xiao\] Yu, currently Specially Advanced. His father served the Sui as Duke of Liang, and his grandfather was Emperor Ming of Liang. His temperament was broad and simple, and his aspirations were serene and pure. His paternal aunt was the empress of Emperor Yang of the Sui. From his youth into adulthood, he constantly stayed in the palaces. He longed for and delighted in transcendence of the world, but had no way to realize it on his own. When he reached adulthood, the emperor gave him the daughter of King Xiao of Qin as his wife, which was not his wish. With no alternative, he occasionally engaged in conjugal relations. Only after his wife passed away was he able to fulfill his longstanding wish, taking the tonsure in Zheng’s Eastern Capital. At the beginning of the Wude era, he returned to the capital and took up residence in Zhuangyan Monastery. He broadly listened to various scriptural sections, taking the Mahāyānasaṃgraha as his primary focus. He was quite adept at composing poetry and was especially skilled in cursive and clerical script; whatever his brush touched served as a model, so the inscriptions of scripture titles and monastery plaques were all revered by others. His elder brother Xiao Jun held the post of Middle Secretary of the Eastern Palace, and his literary talents were relied upon by the court. Every spring and autumn, holding hands they went to the crags and peaks, composing poems as inspiration struck and joining lines with the same rhymes; at the time, people considered them a formidable pair of brothers. Moreover, his younger brother Zhizheng left home and lived with him; he was the son of Duke Song’s elder brother, the Chief Minister of the Court of the National Granaries. Casting aside the pursuit of glory and rank, he rejoiced in cherishing the path's enterprise, diligently training himself without distinguishing between dusk and dawn. Zhizheng passed away in succession after his elder brother Huiquan. Because their family had for generations believed in and revered the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra, both the high and low of the clan had fully memorized it; thus, the Xiao clan’s Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra was praised by both monastics and laity for its abundance. The Specially Advanced compiled a commentary, gathering together more than ten traditions, selecting their finest points, harmonizing them with his own thoughts, and establishing it in a number of fascicles, which he constantly expounded himself. From time to time, he would summon famous monks of the capital to point out flaws, or assemble nearly twenty monastic and lay kin, bestowing timely gifts with the four requisites without slackening. Thus, wherever his emoluments reached, his only concern was to succor and relieve others. The Chief Minister by inclination prioritized reading and chanting; from the beginning of his life to its end, his recitations exceeded ten thousand times, and he hired people to copy sūtras totaling a thousand sets. Every day when attending court, he always made his usher hold the scripture in front; when there was a slight lull in public affairs, he would immediately proceed to chant and read it, so that the courtiers looked up to him as peerless. Since the teaching of Śākya spread eastward, its lingering flavor has reached far, yet those who uphold, read, and chant it like this have been rare in the world. The Xiao household may truly serve as a model for the entire realm. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 28.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.28.28) - [Next: 28.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.28.30) - [Up: 28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.28) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060~en-mt.28.29) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法華傳記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.4.52) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.28.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.28.29) · Pramāṇa