宋高僧傳 11.10

11.10

釋如會，韶州始興人也。大歷八年，止國一禪師門下，後歸大寂法集。時禪客仰慕，決求心要，僧堂之內，床榻為之陷折，時號「折床會」，猶言鑿佛床也。後徇請居長沙東寺焉。自大寂去世，其法門鼎盛，時無可敵，諺謂東寺為「禪窟」，斷可知矣。時相國崔公群慕會之風，來謁于門，答對瀏亮，辭咸造理。自爾為師友之契。初群與皇甫鎛議上憲宗尊號，因被鎛搆，出為湖南觀察，閑豫歸心于會也。至穆宗長慶癸卯歲，終于寺。春秋八十。時井泉預枯，異香馝馥，遷塔于城南。廉使李翱盡毀近城墳塔，唯留會所瘞浮圖，以筆題曰：「獨留此塔，以別賢愚矣。」劉膳部軻著碑焉。勅諡傳明大師，塔曰永際。亦呼所居為「夾山和尚」是歟。

Śramaṇa Ruhui was a native of Shixing in Shaozhou. In the eighth year of the Dali era, he resided under Chan Master Guoyi, and later turned to the Dharma assembly of Daji. At that time, Chan seekers looked up to him with admiration and sought determinately the essentials of mind; within the monks' hall, the beds and benches caved in and broke beneath them, so that he was known at the time as "Broke-the-Benches Hui," just like the saying "burrowing beneath the Buddha's seat." Later, acceding to requests, he dwelt at Dongsi Temple in Changsha. From the time Daji passed away, his Dharma gate flourished mightily without peer in the realm, such that popular speech called Dongsi Temple a "Chan cave," which shows clearly how it was regarded. At that time, Chancellor Lord Cui Qun admired Hui's demeanor and came to call upon him at his gate; Hui's responses were limpid and clear, his words all attaining profound principle. From then on they forged an intimacy of teacher and friend. Earlier, Qun had consulted with Huangfu Bo about presenting an honorific title to Xianzong; being framed by Bo, he was demoted to become surveillance commissioner of Hunan, and during his leisure he turned his heart toward Hui. In the guimao year, the Changqing era of Muzong, he died at the temple at the age of eighty. At that time the well water dried up in advance, and an extraordinary fragrance wafted sweetly. They transferred his stupa to the south of the city. The surveillance commissioner Li Ao completely demolished the tombs and stupas near the city, leaving only the stūpa housing Hui's remains, writing on it with his brush: "I preserve this stupa alone, in order to distinguish the worthy from the foolish." Liu Ke of the Ministry of Sacrifices composed the stele inscription for him. An imperial edict posthumously granted him the title Grand Master Chuanming, and his stupa was named Yongji. He was also called "Venerable of Jiashan" after his dwelling place; was it so?