宋高僧傳 27.25

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釋幽玄，俗姓劉，幽州人也。夙懷出俗之願，年及弱冠，方遂前心，投并州賢禪師而了玄契。元和二年，振錫江左，至會稽大雲寺，見三學僧柅定食輪，資緣都闕。玄言發響應，檀越供贍。未幾，移居湖心龜山妙喜古寺。九年，屬平昌孟簡鎮于越，枉駕問道，遂構成大院。十二載，復登南嶽，栖止絕頂。十三年，豫章太守商祐篤重其道，命住東明寺，即東晉安帝世之所造，僧數繁湊。寶曆中，為奏改為世福，兼置戒壇，續勅改為度僧寺。其間形像，皆玄之化導。大和元年，沈傅中丞又加信向。玄於院南別造佛閣五層，功就，謂弟子曰：「福事無盡，生涯有期；物有闕然，後人庀具。吾終後，可將屍漆布安閣下。」言訖而化，門人特旁立塔焉。

Shi Youxuan, whose secular surname was Liu, was a native of Youzhou. From an early age he harbored the wish to leave worldly life, and only upon reaching his twentieth year did he fulfill his former intention, going to Chan Master Xian of Bingzhou to comprehend the profound tally. In the second year of the Yuanhe era [807], he shook his staff toward Jiangzuo and arrived at Dayun Temple in Kuaiji, where he saw that the monks of the three trainings were hindered in their turning of the food-wheel, utterly lacking material provisions. As soon as Xuan spoke, patrons responded like echoes and provided sustenance. Before long, he moved to the ancient Miaoxi Temple on Guishan in the middle of the lake. In the ninth year [814], when Meng Jian of Pingchang was stationed in Yuyue, he went out of his way to come and inquire about the Way, and subsequently constructed a large cloister. In the twelfth year [817], he climbed the Southern Peak again and resided on the topmost summit. In the thirteenth year [818], the Prefect of Yuzhang, Shang You, deeply venerated his Way and instructed him to reside at Dongming Temple, which had been built during the reign of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin, where the monastic assembly had grown dense. During the Baoli era, he petitioned to have it renamed Shifu, and established an ordination platform, followed by an imperial decree changing its name to Duseng Temple. The images within it were all created through Xuan's guidance. In the first year of the Dahe era [827], Vice Censor-in-Chief Shen Chuan further placed his faith in him. To the south of the cloister, Xuan separately built a five-story Buddhist pavilion. When the work was accomplished, he said to his disciples, "Blessing-bringing works are endless, but a lifetime has its term; where items are lacking, later generations will provide them. After I pass away, you may apply lacquer and cloth to my corpse and place it beneath the pavilion." Having spoken, he transformed. His disciples specially erected a stūpa beside it.