宋高僧傳 13.7

13.7

釋智閑，青州人也。身裁七尺，博聞強記，有幹略。親黨觀其所以，謂之曰：「汝加力學，則他後成佐時之良器也。」俄爾，辭親出俗。既而慕法心堅，至南方禮溈山大圓禪師盛會，咸推閑為俊敏。溈山一日召對，茫然。將諸方語要一時煨燼，曰：「畫餅弗可充飢也。」便望南陽忠國師遺跡而居。偶芟除草木，擊瓦礫，失笑，冥有所證，抒頌唱之，由茲盛化。終後，勅諡襲燈大師，塔號延福焉。次舒州桐城投子山釋大同，姓劉氏，舒州懷寧人也。幼性剛正，有老成氣度。因投洛下保唐滿禪師出俗，初習安般觀，業垂成，遂求《華嚴》性海。復負錫謁翠微山法會，同伏牛元通激發請益，大明祖意。由是放蕩周遊，還歸故土，隱投子山，結茅茨，棲泊以求其志。中和中，巢寇蕩覆京畿，天下悖亂。有賊徒持刃問同曰：「住此何為？」對以佛法。魁渠聞而膜拜，脫身服裝而施之，下山。以梁乾化四年甲戌四月六日，加趺坐亡，春秋九十六，法臘四十六。凡居化此山三十餘載云。

Śramaṇa Zhixian was a native of Qingzhou. His stature was seven feet tall; he was broadly learned with a strong memory, possessing talent and strategy. His relatives and clansmen observed his character and said to him: 'If you apply yourself to study, you will later become a fine vessel to assist the times.' Soon after, he took leave of his family and left secular life. Afterward, his aspiration for the Dharma was firm, and he traveled south to pay homage at the great assembly of Chan Master Dayuan of Mount Guishan, where everyone regarded Xian as brilliant and sharp. One day, Guishan called him for an interview, and he was at a complete loss. He consigned all the essential sayings of various masters to the ashes at once, saying: 'Painted rice-cakes cannot satisfy hunger!' He then looked toward the vestige of National Preceptor Zhong of Nanyang and took up residence there. Once, while clearing weeds and trees, a shard struck a piece of tile; he burst out laughing, secretly having an awakening. He composed a verse and sang it, and from this his teaching flourished greatly. After his passing, an imperial decree conferred the posthumous title Grand Master Xideng, and his pagoda was named Yanfu. Next is Śramaṇa Datong of Mount Touzi in Tongcheng, Shuzhou, whose secular surname was Liu and who was a native of Huaining in Shuzhou. In his youth, his nature was upright, and he had a mature bearing. He left secular life under Chan Master Baotang Man in Luoyang. He initially practiced the contemplation of ānāpāna, and when his practice was nearly complete, he sought the nature-ocean of the Avataṃsaka. Again shouldering his staff, he paid respects at the Dharma assembly of Mount Cuiwei; together with Yuantong of Funiu, he was stimulated and sought instruction, thereby greatly clarifying the patriarchal intent. From this, he wandered freely all over, and returning to his native land, hid at Mount Touzi, building a thatched hut where he dwelled to pursue his aspiration. During the Zhonghe era, the rebel Huang Chao overturned the metropolitan region, and the world was in turmoil. Some bandits carrying blades asked Tong: 'Why do you live here?' He answered them with the Buddhadharma. The chieftain, upon hearing it, prostrated in reverence, stripped off his clothing to offer it to him, and went down the mountain. On the sixth day of the fourth month in the fourth year of Qianhua under the Later Liang, the jiaxu year, he sat cross-legged and passed away at the age of ninety-six, with a dharma age of forty-six. In all, he resided on and transformed this mountain for over thirty years.