宋高僧傳 12.29

12.29

釋有緣，俗姓馮，東川梓潼人也。小學之年往成都福感寺，事定蘭開士——即宣宗師矣。隨侍出入，多在內中。一旦宣召，帝以筆書其衫背云：「此童子與朕有緣」，由茲召體矣。大中九年，遇白公敏中出鎮益部，開戒壇，即於淨眾寺具尸羅也。續於京輦聽習經律五臘。後身披布褐，手執墨勅，海內遊行。參見小馬神照，凡同時叢林禪祖無不禮謁者。乃居滁州華山，及南遊至武夷山，時廉使李誨為築禪室。乾符三年，至縉雲龍泉大賽山立院。因奏祠部給額，號龍安。勅度七僧，住十八載。安而能遷，止連雲院焉。太守盧約者，以諶諒之誠，請入州開元寺別院，四事供施焉。天祐丁卯歲四月八日，示疾，至六月朔日終于廨署，報齡七十三，臘五十二。遺旨囑制置揚習司空主喪務，於寺南園茶毘。火滅，散分舍利數百粒。後收四十九粒并遺骨一缾，瘞于石塔。晉開運三年乙巳歲，文泰律師撰塔碑焉。

Shi Youyuan's secular surname was Feng, and he was a native of Zitong in Dongchuan. In the years of his elementary studies, he went to Fugan Temple in Chengdu to serve the virtuous Lan Kaishe—who was in fact the teacher of Emperor Xuanzong. Attending him in entering and leaving [the palace], he was often inside the imperial quarters. One day he was summoned by an imperial decree, and the emperor wrote with a brush upon the back of his robe: "This boy has an affinity with We." From this, it became the appellation by which he was called. In the ninth year of Dazhong, he met Lord Bai Minzhong, who went out to garrison the Yizhou region and established an ordination platform; [Youyuan] immediately undertook the śīla at Jingzhong Temple. Afterwards, he listened to and studied the scriptures and vinaya in the capital for five dharma years. Later, clothed in coarse hemp cloth and holding the black-ink imperial rescript in hand, he journeyed throughout the realm. He visited Xiao Ma Shenzhao; among the Chan patriarchs of the monasteries of his time, there was none he did not pay homage to. He then resided at Mount Hua in Chuzhou, and later traveled south to Mount Wuyi, where the surveillance commissioner Li Hui built a meditation chamber for him. In the third year of Qianfu, he reached Mount Dasai in Longquan of Jinyun and established a monastery. Thereupon, he petitioned the Ministry of Rites to grant a plaque, naming it Long'an. By imperial decree, seven monks were ordained, and he resided there for eighteen years. Being peaceful yet able to move, he came to rest at Lianyun Cloister. Lu Yue, the commandery prefect, with sincere and faithful devotion, invited him to enter the detached cloister of Kaiyuan Temple in the prefecture, offering him the four requisites. On the eighth day of the fourth month in the dingmao year of Tianyou, he showed signs of illness. On the first day of the sixth month, he passed away in the official residence at the age of seventy-three, with a monastic age of fifty-two. His testamentary instructions entrusted Yang Xi, Director of the Military Commission and Minister of Works, to oversee the funeral affairs, and he was cremated in the south garden of the temple. When the fire died out, several hundred relics were scattered and gathered. Later, forty-nine relics and a jar of his remaining bones were collected and buried in a stone stūpa. In the yisi year, the third year of Kaiyun of the Jin dynasty, Vinaya Master Wentai composed the stūpa inscription.