宋高僧傳 10.16

10.16

釋惟寬，姓祝氏，衢州信安人也。祖曰安，考曰皎。生十三歲，見殺生者，衋然不忍食。退而出家，求翦髮於僧曇，受尸羅於僧崇，學毘尼於僧如，證大乘法於止觀，成最上乘於大寂道一。貞元六年，始行化於閩、越間，歲餘而迴心改服者百數。七年，伏猛虎於會稽，作滕家道場。八年，與山神受歸戒於鄱陽，作迴向道場。十三年，感非人於少林寺。二十一年，作有為功德於衛國寺。明年，施無為功德於天宮寺。元和四年，憲宗章武皇帝詔於安國寺。五年，問道於麟德殿。其年，復靈泉於不空三藏池。十二年二月晦，大說於傳法堂訖，奄然而化。報齡六十三，僧夏三十九。歸葬于[灞-雨+襾]陵西原，詔諡曰大徹禪師，塔號元和正真。初，寬說心要法三十年，度黑白眾殆及百千萬，應病授藥，安可既乎？白樂天為宮贊時遇寬，四詣法堂，每來垂一問，寬答如流，白君以師事之。門弟子殆千餘，得法者三十九，入室受遺寄者曰義崇、圓照焉。唐羅浮山釋寶修，俗姓周，資州人也。從師於純德寺，志求玄理，於蘄州忍大師法裔決了重疑。後愛羅浮山石室安止，檀越為造梵宇，蔚成大寺。一日，告門人曰：「因緣相偪。」愀然不樂，眾咸莫測。順宗皇帝深重佛宗，知修之名，詔入京與三藏擊問，并答翻譯之意，朗暢如流。乃留居輦下。三年，終于京寺云。

Shi Weikuan's secular surname was Zhu, and he was a native of Xin'an in Quzhou. His grandfather was named An, and his father was named Jiao. When he was thirteen years of age, he saw living creatures being slaughtered and, feeling pained sorrow, could not bear to eat [meat]. He withdrew to renounce household life, seeking tonsure from the monk Tan, receiving the śīla from the monk Chong, studying the vinaya under the monk Ru, verifying the Mahāyāna Dharma in śamatha-vipaśyanā, and perfecting the Supreme Vehicle under Daji Daoyi. In the sixth year of Zhenyuan, he first carried out conversion work between Min and Yue; within a year or so, those who turned their minds and changed their robes numbered in the hundreds. In the seventh year, he subdued a ferocious tiger in Kuaiji and established the Teng Family Bodhimaṇḍa. In the eighth year, he conferred the refuges and precepts upon a mountain spirit in Poyang and established the Dedication Bodhimaṇḍa. In the thirteenth year, he moved non-humans [to devotion] at Shaolin Temple. In the twenty-first year, he performed conditioned meritorious deeds at Weiguo Temple. The following year, he bestowed unconditioned meritorious deeds at Tiangong Temple. In the fourth year of Yuanhe, Emperor Xianzong, Zhangwu, summoned him to Anguo Temple. In the fifth year, [the Emperor] inquired about the Way in the Linde Hall. In that year, he restored the numinous spring at the pool of Tripiṭaka Master Bukong. On the last day of the second month in the twelfth year, having concluded a great sermon in the Dharma-transmission Hall, he suddenly transformed. His report-age was sixty-three, and his saṅgha summers were thirty-nine. He was returned for burial on the western plain of Baling. An imperial edict bestowed the posthumous title Dache Chanshi ('Dhyāna Master of Great Penetration'), and his stūpa was named Yuanhe Zhengzhen. Earlier, Kuan had preached the Dharma of the mind essentials for thirty years, delivering monastics and laypeople numbering nearly hundreds of thousands and myriads; prescribing medicine according to the sickness, how could he ever be exhausted? When Bai Letian served as Palace Sponsor, he encountered Kuan; he visited the Dharma Hall four times, presenting a question each time he came, and Kuan replied fluently without hesitation, so Lord Bai served him as a master. His disciples numbered nearly a thousand; thirty-nine attained the Dharma, and those who entered his chamber to receive his bequeathed transmission were named Yichong and Yuanzhao. Shi Baoxiu of Mount Luofu under the Tang had the secular surname Zhou and was a native of Zizhou. He followed a master at Chunde Temple; aspiring to seek the profound truth, he resolved deep doubts with the Dharma heirs of Grand Master Ren of Qizhou. Later, fond of dwelling in a stone chamber on Mount Luofu, dānapatis built a Buddhist sanctuary for him, which flourished into a great monastery. One day, he told his disciples, "Causes and conditions are pressing upon me," looking sorrowful and unhappy, so that the assembly was bewildered. Emperor Shunzong deeply revered the Buddhist school; knowing Xiu's fame, he summoned him to the capital to engage in dialectical inquiries with Tripiṭaka masters and to answer on the meaning of translations, which he did clearly, smoothly, and fluently. He was then detained to dwell in the capital. In the third year, he passed away in a capital monastery.