宋高僧傳 12.4

12.4

釋寰中，姓盧氏，河東蒲坂人也。稟靈特異，挺質殊倫，身支𦟛亭，頂骨圓峻，其聲若鐘響，其色猶脂凝。學通終古，辭實豐贍。年二十五，隨計中甲科，然未塞其懷，復思再捷。無何，遭母之憂，遂廬于墓所。及服闋，徑往北京童子寺出家。二稔未周，諸經皆覽。明年，往嵩嶽登戒，肄習律部。於茲博通，忽慕上乘，決往百丈山，深得玄旨。後隱南嶽常樂寺，結茅于山椒。諫議大夫崔公深重其操，因別立方丈。虞淵景晞，一飯永日。然其乏水，羸瓶遠求。俄爾深宵，有虎嘷嘯廬側，詰旦視之，果濫泉坼地而湧，足其汲用。後之杭，浙江之北有山號大慈。居未久，檀信爰臻。旋成巨院，四方僧侶參禮如雲。屬武宗廢教，中衣短褐，或請居戴氏別墅焉。大中壬申歲，太守劉公首命剃染，重盛禪林。壬午歲二月十五日囑累，聲畢而終。時漸溽暑，驗其身一無變異，而頂門燠潤。冬，窆于塔所，享年八十三，法臘五十四。有說：常樂寺山虎跑泉，當中公滅日，忽焉乾涸。異哉！止資中之受用耳。至乾符丁酉歲，勅「諡大師」，號性空，塔名定慧也。縉雲太守段成式為真讚焉。

Śramaṇa Huanzhong was surnamed Lu, a native of Puban in Hedong. He was endowed with extraordinary spiritual qualities and had a stature superior to ordinary mortals: his limbs were well-proportioned, the bone of his crown round and elevated; his voice was like the sound of a bell, and his skin like curdled fat. His erudition spanned all antiquity, and his rhetoric was copious and rich. At age twenty-five, he went up for the imperial examinations and passed in the first tier, but this did not satisfy his aspirations, and he thought to succeed again. Soon after, he suffered the mourning for his mother, so he built a hut by her grave. When the mourning period concluded, he went straight to Tongzi Temple in the Northern Capital and renounced the world (pravrajyā). Before two harvests were completed, he had perused all the scriptures. The following year, he ascended Mount Song to receive the precepts, and studied the vinaya section. Thoroughly versed in this, he suddenly yearned for the Mahāyāna, decisively went to Mount Baizhang, and profoundly grasped the profound import. Later he lived in reclusion at Changle Temple on the Southern Peak, thatching a cottage on the mountain peak. Grand Master of Remonstrance Lord Cui deeply respected his conduct, and thereupon specially erected an abbot's quarters. He waited for the sun to sink in the Yu Abyss, taking only one meal throughout the long day. However, lacking water, he went far with an emaciated pitcher to fetch it. Suddenly, in the depths of the night, a tiger roared beside his hut; when inspected the next morning, a gushing spring had cracked the ground and bubbled up, sufficient for his drawing needs. Later he went to Hangzhou; north of the Zhejiang River was a mountain called Daci. Before he had dwelled there long, patrons and the faithful arrived in succession. Soon it grew into an enormous monastery, and monks from the four directions gathered to pay respects like clouds. During the suppression of the teaching by Emperor Wuzong, Zhong wore plain robes and was invited by someone to reside at the villa of the Dai family. In the renshen year of Dazhong, Prefect Lord Liu was the first to order him to shave his head and dye his robes, restoring prosperity to the Chan forest. On the fifteenth day of the second month of the renwu year, he gave his final instructions, and died just as his voice ceased. At that time, it was growing hot and humid, but examination of his body showed not the slightest change, and the crown of his head was warm and moist. In winter, he was interred at the stupa site, living to eighty-three years of age, with a dharma age of fifty-four. There is a saying that the Tiger Run Spring on the mountain of Changle Temple suddenly dried up on the day Master Zhong passed away. How marvelous! It had existed solely to support his use. In the dingyou year of Qianfu, an imperial decree posthumously titled the Grand Master Xingkong ('Nature of Emptiness'), and named his stupa Dinghui ('Concentration and Wisdom'). Duan Chengshi, prefect of Jinyun, composed a eulogy for his portrait.