續高僧傳 7.18

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釋安廩。姓秦氏。晉中書令靖之第七世也。寓居江陰之利成縣焉。考王妙思滔玄怡心屆寂。乃製入神書一首洞曆三卷。青烏之道莫不傳芳。廩幼而聰頴獨悟不群。十三偏艱。孝知遠近。斷水骨立。聞者涕零。古人有言。知子父也。乃攝以典教。業遂多通。而性好老莊。早達經史。又善太一之能。並解孫吳之術。是以才藝有功文武清播。仍欲披榛問隱蓽門珪竇。而虛懷機發體悟真權。年二十五啟勅出家。乃遊方尋道。北詣魏國。於司州光融寺容公所採習經論。容律訓嚴凝肅成濟器。並聽嵩高少林寺光公十地。一聞領解頓盡言前。深味名象並畢中意。又受禪法悉究玄門。請業之徒屢申弘益。在魏十有二年。講四分律近二十遍。大乘經論並得相仍。梁泰清元年始發彭沛。門人擁從還届楊都。武帝敬供相接。勅住天安。講花嚴經。標致宏綱妙指機會。值梁運既終法輪停轉。洎大陳御㝢。永定元年春乃請入內殿。手傳香火接足盡虔。長承戒範。有勅住耆闍寺。給講連續。既會夙心遂欣久處。世祖文皇又請入昭德殿。開講大集。樂說不窮重筵莫擬。孝宣御曆。又於華林園內北面受道。闡化涉勞因以遘疾。至德元年建寅之月遷化于房。皇心惻悼𮚐贈有嘉。即以其月窆於開善之西山。春秋七十有七。門人痛其安放。士庶失其歸依矣。

Śramaṇa Anlin was surnamed Qin, a seventh-generation descendant of Jing, Palace Secretariat of the Jin. He resided in Licheng County, Jiangyin. His late father had subtle thoughts that flowed into the profound, and his tranquil mind attained quietude; he authored the Rusheshen shu in one piece and the Dongli in three fascicles, and in the way of geomancy, none failed to transmit his renown. Lin was clever and bright from his youth, attaining understanding independently and standing out from the crowd. At the age of thirteen, he suffered the loss of a parent; his filial piety was known far and wide. Fasting from water, he was reduced to bone, so that those who heard of it wept. As the ancients said, “None knows the son like the father.” [His father] had trained him with the classical teachings, so that his learning became widely versed. Moreover, by nature he was fond of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and early on mastered the classics and histories; he was also skilled in the art of the Taiyi and understood the methods of Sunzi and Wuzi. Therefore, his talents and arts were accomplished, and his reputation in both civil and military spheres spread clear and wide. He still wished to push through the brambles to seek seclusion within a bramble door and round-walled burrow, yet with an open mind, his capacity was stirred, and he intuitively realized the real and the provisional. At the age of twenty-five, he petitioned the court by decree to leave the household life. He then traveled in all directions seeking the Way, going north to the state of Wei. At Guangrong Monastery in Sizhou, under the Venerable Rong, he gathered and studied sūtras and treatises. Rong's vinaya admonitions were stern and solemn, strictly shaping him into an instrument of salvation. He also listened to the Daśabhūmika under the Venerable Guang of Shaolin Monastery on Mount Songgao; upon hearing it once, he grasped it, exhausting what lay before the words in an instant, deeply relishing names and forms and entirely completing their inner meaning. He also received the methods of dhyāna, thoroughly investigating the profound gates. Those who requested instruction from him repeatedly unfolded great benefit. In Wei for twelve years, he lectured on the Dharmaguptaka-vinaya nearly twenty times; Mahāyāna sūtras and treatises also followed in succession. In the first year of the Taiqing era of the Liang, he set out from Peng and Pei; surrounded and followed by his disciples, he returned to the capital Yang[du]. Emperor Wu welcomed and made offerings to him in succession, commanding him by decree to reside at Tian'an [Monastery] and lecture on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. He set forth its grand framework, its subtle purports according with opportune moments. When the destiny of the Liang reached its end, the wheel of the Dharma ceased to turn. When the Great Chen came to rule the realm, in the spring of the first year of the Yongding era, he was invited into the inner palace, where [the Emperor] handed him incense and fire with his own hands, touched his feet in complete devotion, and long adhered to his precept-standards. A decree ordered him to reside at Qidu Monastery, providing for continuous lecturing. As this matched his original wish, he was delighted to remain there long. Emperor Wen also invited him into the Zhaode Hall to begin lecturing on the Mahāsaṃnipāta Sūtra; his joyful eloquence was inexhaustible, unmatched by repeated assemblies. During the reign of Xiaoxuan, he received the Way facing north within the Hualin Garden. Due to the toils of propagating the transformation, he contracted an illness. In the month of Jianying of the first year of the Zhide era, he passed away in his chamber. The Emperor's heart was grieved and mourned him, bestowing generous funerary gifts. In that very month, he was buried on the western mountain of Kaishan, at the age of seventy-seven. His disciples grieved for his resting place, and gentry and commoners lost their refuge.