宋高僧傳 16.11

16.11

釋上恒，姓饒氏，臨川南城人也。童而有知，志學之年，發心捨家，從母黨在空門而求攝受，教誦佛典，日計千言。壯齒，從南嶽大圓大師納戒而聽涉精苦。大曆中，不去父母之邦，請隷于景雲寺。修習無虧，亟淹年序。《南山事鈔》，講貫尤專。貞元初，徙居豫章龍興寺，與廬阜法真、天台靈祐、荊門法裔、興果神湊、建昌慧璡遊也，塤箎合韻，水乳相資。法付王臣，故與姜相國公輔、顏魯公真卿、楊憑、韋丹四君友善。提振禁防，故講《四分律》，而遷善滅罪者無央數眾。坐甘露壇二十許年，十有八會，救拔群生，剡浮東震，男女得度者一萬五千餘人。元和十年，微云乖悆，十月己亥，化于廬山東林寺，歸全身于南岡石墳。住世七十七年，安居五十五夏。門人等樹松柏，太原白居易為石塔銘云。

Shi Shangheng was surnamed Rao and was a native of Nancheng in Linchuan. Knowing as a child, at the age when his mind was set on learning, he resolved to leave home, following his maternal relatives who were in the Buddhist fold to seek acceptance; instructed to recite Buddhist scriptures, he covered a thousand words a day. In his prime, he received the precepts from Grand Master Dayuan of the Southern Peak and engaged in study with strenuous diligence. During the Dali era, unwilling to leave the land of his parents, he requested registration at Jingyun Temple. His cultivation and practice were without fault, and many years passed. He specialized particularly in lecturing on the *Nanshan Shichao*. At the beginning of the Zhenyuan era, he moved to reside at Longxing Temple in Yuzhang, associating with Fazhen of Mount Lu, Lingyou of Tiantai, Fa-yi of Jingmen, Shencou of Xingguo, and Huijin of Jianchang; they harmonized like clay flutes and bamboo pipes, supporting one another like water and milk. The Dharma was entrusted to royal ministers, and thus he was friendly with the four gentlemen: Prime Minister Jiang Gongfu, Duke of Lu Yan Zhenqing, Yang Ping, and Wei Dan. Promoting and upholding the prohibitions and protections, he lectured on the *Cāturvargīya-vinaya* (Four-Part Vinaya), and those who turned toward goodness and eliminated sins were countless. He occupied the sweet-dew platform for some twenty years over eighteen assemblies, rescuing living beings; across the eastern regions of Jambudvīpa, more than fifteen thousand men and women attained ordination. In the tenth year of the Yuanhe era, he slightly took ill; on the jihei day of the tenth month, he passed away at Donglin Temple on Mount Lu, his whole body interred in a stone tomb on the Southern Ridge. He lived in the world for seventy-seven years, with fifty-five summer retreats. His disciples planted pines and cypresses, and Bai Juyi of Taiyuan composed the inscription for his stone stupa.