宋高僧傳 13.29

13.29

釋文益，姓魯氏，餘杭人也。年甫七齡，挺然出俗，削染于新定智通院，依全偉禪伯。弱年，得形俱無作法於越州開元寺。于時謝俗累以拂衣，出樊籠而矯翼。屬律匠希覺師盛化其徒于鄮山育王寺，甚得持犯之趣。又遊文雅之場，覺師許命為我門之游、夏也。尋則玄機一發，雜務俱捐。振錫南遊，止長慶禪師法會。已決疑滯，更約伴西出湖湘。爾日暴雨不進，暫望西院，寄度信宿，避溪漲之患耳，遂參宣法大師——曾住漳浦羅漢，閩人止呼羅漢。羅漢素知益在長慶頴脫，銳意接之，唱導之。由玄沙與雪峯血脈殊異，益疑山頓摧，正路斯得，欣欣然挂囊栖止，變塗迴軌，確乎不拔。尋遊方却抵臨川，邦伯命居崇壽。四遠之僧求益者，不減千計。江南國主李氏始祖知重，迎住報恩禪院，署號淨慧。厥後微言欲絕，大夢誰醒？既傳法而有歸，亦同凡而示滅，以周顯德五年戊午歲秋七月十七日有恙，國主紆于方丈問疾。閏月五日，剃髮澡身，與眾言別，加趺而盡，顏貌如生，俗年七十四，臘五十五。私諡曰大法眼，塔號無相。俾城下僧寺具威儀禮迎引，奉全身於江寧縣丹陽鄉，起塔焉。益好為文筆，特慕支湯之體，時作偈頌真讚，別形纂錄。法嗣弟子天台德韶、慧明、漳州智依、鐘山道欽、潤州光逸、吉州文遂。江南後主為碑頌德，韓熙載撰塔銘云。

Śramaṇa Wenyi, whose surname was Lu, was a native of Yuhang. When he was just seven years old, he stood out from the world and left home, shaving his head at Zhitong Cloister in Xinding under the Chan elder Quanwei. At an early age, he attained the unmanifest form-accompanying precepts at Kaiyuan Temple in Yue Prefecture. At that time he shed worldly encumbrances with a flick of his sleeves, flew out of the cage, and lifted his wings. It happened that the vinaya master Xijue was vigorously teaching his disciples at King Aśoka Temple on Mount Mao, deeply grasping the nuances of upholding and violating the precepts. Wenyi also frequented literary salons; Master Xijue praised him, saying he was the Yan You and Zixia of his own school. Soon, once his profound capacity was triggered, he cast aside all miscellaneous pursuits. Shaking his mendicant staff, he traveled south and joined the Dharma assembly of Chan Master Changqing. Having resolved his doubts and hindrances, he further made an agreement with companions to journey west out into Hunan. That day, a violent downpour prevented them from advancing; looking toward Xiyuan, they lodged there for two nights merely to avoid the disaster of the flooded stream, and thus he called upon Grand Master Xuanfa—who had once resided at Luohan in Zhangpu, so the people of Min simply called him "Luohan." Luohan had always known of Yi's outstanding talent under Changqing, and was eager to receive and guide him. Because the lineages of Xuansha and Xuefeng were distinct, Yi's mountain of doubt collapsed in an instant; finding the correct path, he joyfully hung up his travel bag and stayed, altering his path and turning his tracks, steadfast and immovable. Soon, traveling on foot, he returned to Linchuan, where the prefect ordered him to reside at Chongshou. The monks from far and near who sought instruction from Yi were no fewer than a thousand. The founding ruler of the Southern Tang, of the Li family, recognized and valued him, inviting him to reside at Bao'en Chan Cloister and bestowing upon him the title of Jinghui. Later, when the subtle words were about to cease, who would awaken from the great dream? Having transmitted the Dharma and found where to rest it, he also appeared to pass away like ordinary mortals: on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the autumn of the fifth year of Xiande under the Zhou, a wuwu year, he took ill, and the state ruler made a detour to the abbot's quarters to inquire after his illness. On the fifth day of the intercalary month, he shaved his head, bathed his body, bid farewell to the assembly, and sat cross-legged and expired; his facial expression remained as though alive. He was seventy-four years of secular age and fifty-five years of saṅgha age. He was privately posthumously titled "Great Master Fayan," and his stupa was named Wuxiang. The king ordered the city's monasteries to display full protocol and ceremony in greeting and leading the procession, escorting his complete body to Danyang village in Jiangning county, where a stupa was erected. Yi was fond of literary writing, particularly admiring the style of Zhi Dun and Sengtang; he composed verses and portraits' eulogies from time to time, which were separately compiled into collections. His Dharma heirs and disciples included Deshao of Mount Tiantai, Huiming, Zhiyi of Zhangzhou, Daoqin of Mount Zhong, Guangyi of Runzhou, and Wensui of Jizhou. The Later Lord of Southern Tang composed a stele eulogizing his virtues, and Han Xizai wrote the stupa inscription.