宋高僧傳 12.21

12.21

釋藏廙，俗姓程，衢州信安人也。幼歲神氣朗暢，貌質魁然。元和中告親求出家，志不可却，直造長沙嶽麓，投靈智律師請事剃染。智師察其強願不群，乃攝度之。既披法服，尋於武陵開元寺智總律師受具足尸羅，當長慶三年也。因聽律範，旋窮篇聚，語同業曰：「教門繁廣，然有總門。總門之急，勿過捨筏。」遂遍參禪宗，遇馬素門下高足住龍牙山，知廙法器，異日告之曰：「蘊界不真，佛生非我。子之正本，當何所名？復從誰得？」廙一言領會，千轍同歸。龍牙曰：「我法眼不蒙掩矣。」既遂所求，大得安靜，却迴柯山，蓋避會昌之搜揚也。至大中六年，郡牧崔公壽重之，於州龍興寺別構禪室，延居之。數年，北至嘉禾，信士歸依，請留住至德伽藍。又往姑蘇，時崔公鈞作守此郡，聞廙名久，請居南禪院。咸通八年，浙西廉使周公寶命住招隱寺。其年秋，却返嘉禾，信士呂京捨別墅造今永安院。時乾符中，群寇紛紜，禪侶分散。廙曰：「盜終不至此。」及期，寇從別道行，果無所損，其先見如此。五年十月十二日，滿院陰雲，雉鳴烏噪，安坐而化，弟子號哭，却穌，至六年三月中辰前別眾後終，享年八十二，僧臘五十六。時澹交為廙作真讚。至乾寧中，僧神贊進狀，乞追諡號塔名。名士吳重裕書碑。

Śramaṇa Zangyi, secular surname Cheng, was a native of Xin'an in Quzhou. In his youth, his spirit was clear and vibrant, and his physical stature was towering. During the Yuanhe era, he informed his parents of his desire to renounce household life; his resolve could not be turned aside, so he went straight to Mount Yuelu in Changsha, where he approached Vinaya Master Lingzhi and asked to receive tonsure and the dyed robes. Master Zhi perceived that his firm aspiration was extraordinary, and so he accepted and ordained him. Having donned the Dharma robes, he soon received the full precepts (śīla) from Vinaya Master Zhizong at Kaiyuan Temple in Wuling; this was in the third year of the Changqing era. Through listening to the Vinaya models, he swiftly mastered the classifications of offenses and said to his fellow practitioners: 'The teachings are vast and varied, yet they possess an essential gate. For the urgency of this essential gate, nothing surpasses discarding the raft.' Thereupon he travelled everywhere to visit the masters of the Chan lineage. He encountered an eminent disciple of Mazu residing at Mount Longya, who recognized that Yi was a vessel of the Dharma. On a later day, he said to him: 'The aggregates and realms are not real; the birth of a Buddha is not me. What should the true origin of yours be called? And from whom did you obtain it?' Yi grasped the meaning at a single word; all paths converged as one. Longya said: 'My Dharma eye is not obscured.' Having attained what he sought, he found great peace and stillness, and returned to Mount Ke to escape the searches of the Huichang era. In the sixth year of the Dazhong era, the prefect, the venerable Cui Shou, esteemed him and constructed a separate Chan quarters at the prefectural Longxing Temple, inviting him to reside there. Several years later, he traveled north to Jiahe, where faithful lay followers took refuge in him and asked him to stay at the Zhide Monastery. He then went to Gusu; at that time, Lord Cui Jun was prefect of this commandery, and having long heard of Yi's fame, he invited him to reside at the Southern Chan Cloister. In the eighth year of the Xiantong era, the Surveillance Commissioner of Western Zhe, Lord Zhou Bao, ordered him to reside at Zhaoyin Temple. In the autumn of that year, he returned to Jiahe, where the faithful layman Lü Jing donated his villa to build the present-day Yong'an Cloister. During the Qianfu era, swarms of bandits caused turmoil, and the Chan community dispersed. Yi said: 'The bandits will never come here.' When the time came, the bandits marched by another route, and indeed no harm was done; his foreknowledge was of this kind. On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the fifth year, dark clouds filled the courtyard, pheasants called, and crows cawed; he sat peacefully and transformed. His disciples wailed and wept, and he revived, until the sixth year, in the middle of the third month, before noon, when he bade farewell to the assembly and passed away, at eighty-two years of age and fifty-six saṅgha years. At that time Danjiao composed a portrait eulogy for Yi. In the Qianning era, the monk Shenzan submitted a memorial requesting a posthumous title and pagoda name. The renowned scholar Wu Zhongyu inscribed the stele.