宋高僧傳 11.22

11.22

釋圓脩姓潘氏，福州閩人也。生而岐嶷，長而俊邁。忽思拔俗，尋事名師，剔髮變衣，年滿，於嵩陽會善寺納戒。既而儀表容與，日新厥德，研窮經論，俄約觀方。遇百丈山海禪師，根教相符，遂明心要。持盃振錫，而抵于杭。見秦望山峻極之勢，有長松枝繁結蓋，遂棲止于松巔。時感鵲復巢於橫枝，物我都忘，羽族馴狎。由茲不下，近四十秋。每一太守到任，則就瞻仰，號鳥窠禪師焉。洎元和初，邦伯裴常棣酷重其道，請下結庵者至于三四，或為參請者說法，裴侯命八屬宰官同力造伽藍，移廢額曰「招賢」以居之。太和七年癸丑歲九月二十二日，端坐，怡然歸寂，享年九十九，僧臘八十。杭之累政良守無不傾重，稅駕樹陰，請談玄極，不覺更僕移辰矣。今塔在石甑山下，南嶽僧唯貞為塔銘焉。近有盜發其塔，且多怪異，止收得銘誌而已。

Shi Yuanxiu's surname was Pan, and he was a native of Min in Fuzhou. From birth he was extraordinarily precocious, and when grown he was talented and eminent. Suddenly desiring to transcend the worldly, he sought out and attended on famous masters, shaved his hair, and donned the monastic robes. When he reached the full age, he received the precepts at Huishan Temple on Mount Songyang. Thereafter his deportment was relaxed and dignified, his virtue renewed day by day, and having exhaustively studied the sūtras and treatises, he soon resolved to travel and observe widely. Meeting Dhyāna Master Baizhang Hai, his capacity accordant with the teaching, he thereupon realized the essential truth of mind. Holding his bowl and shaking his staff, he reached Hangzhou. Seeing the towering and steep heights of Mount Qinwang, where a tall pine with luxuriant branches formed a canopy, he took up residence upon the crown of that pine. At that time he moved a magpie to build its nest again on a lateral branch; worldly things and the self were both forgotten, and the birds became tame and familiar. Due to this he did not descend for nearly forty autumns. Whenever a new prefect arrived at his post, he would go to pay homage, calling him the Bird's Nest Dhyāna Master (Niaoke). In the early Yuanhe reign, the regional governor Pei Changdi, deeply venerating his Way, requested him three or four times to descend and build a hut; on occasion he preached the Dharma for those who came to inquire. Lord Pei ordered the officials of the eight subordinate districts to unite their efforts in building a monastery, transferring an abandoned name plaque reading 'Zhaoxian' ('Summoning the Worthy') for his dwelling. On the twenty-second day of the ninth month in the guichou year, the seventh year of the Taihe era, he sat upright and serenely entered extinction at the age of ninety-nine, with a saṅgha age of eighty. Successive capable governors of Hangzhou without exception revered him, halting their carriages beneath the shade of the trees to request him to speak on the ultimate mystery, unaware of the passing of the hours as the servants rotated shifts. His stupa is now at the foot of Mount Shizeng; the monk Weizhen of Mount Nanyue composed the stupa inscription for it. Recently, thieves opened his stupa, and many uncanny signs appeared; they obtained only the memorial inscription and nothing more.