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釋智頵者，中山人也。自幼辭親，來五臺山善住閣院，禮賢林為師，誦經合格，得度。神情爽拔，氣調高峙，於世資財，少欲知足。糲食充腹，麁衣禦寒，餘有寸帛，未甞不濟諸貧病也。遊方參翫，預諸講席。傳《法華》、《維摩》二部，窮源盡理。後挂錫高峯，息心却掃。距元和中，眾辟為五臺山都檢校守僧長。頵與時遷徙，固辭不允，遂登此職。後遇歲當饑饉，寺宇蕭條。有華嚴寺，是大聖棲真之所，巡遊者頗眾，供施稀踈，院宇倫巡，例稱不迨，眾請為華嚴寺都供養主。時德不孤，有法照、無著、澄觀之出世也。當觀師製《華嚴經疏》，海眾雲集，請頵為講主，日供千僧。十有餘祀，食無告乏。皆云「有無盡藏之米麪也」，歲久頗見豐盈。有隣院僧義圓——亦當代之碩德也——，謂頵久知常住，私有謗言，非平等心，是貪饕者也。夜有神人報圓曰：「僧長是千佛之一數也，汝發輕言。若不悔過，當墮惡道。」圓乃詰朝嗚足懺謝，有茲驗也。及鍾武宗澄汰，頵遁乎山谷，不捨文殊之化境。未逾歲載，宣宗即位，勅五臺諸寺度僧五十人，宣供衣帔，山門再辟。頵為十寺僧長兼山門都修造供養主。大中七年，與寰海遊臺，四眾建無遮，精妙供養。一月日，乃謂大眾曰：「吾欲暫憩微骸，息心斂迹。佐助眾務，吾無能為也，付諸俊哲，繼吾遺躅。」乃淨室安坐而滅，春秋七十七，夏臘五十八云。

Shi Zhiyun was a native of Zhongshan. Leaving his parents in his youth, he came to the Shanzhu Pavilion Cloister on Mount Wutai, where he bowed to Xianlin as his master. Reciting the scriptures according to the required standard, he attained ordination. His spirit was crisp and elevated, his demeanor loftily upright, and regarding worldly wealth, he had few desires and knew contentment. Coarse food filled his belly and rough garments warded off the cold; if he had a scrap of cloth to spare, he never failed to relieve the poor and sick. Wandering to study and investigate, he attended various lecture seats. He transmitted the two scriptures, the Lotus Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, plumbing their source and exhausting their principles. Later, he hung his staff on a high peak, setting his mind at rest and shutting out the world. Around the Yuanhe era, the assembly appointed him as General Overseer and Acting Senior Monastic of Mount Wutai. Yun moved with the times; though he firmly declined, it was not permitted, and so he assumed this office. Later, when a famine occurred, the temple buildings became desolate. There was the Huayan Temple, an abode where the Great Sage dwelt in truth, where visitors were quite numerous, but donations were sparse; its cloisters and halls were deteriorating, and uniformly deemed inadequate. The assembly requested him to serve as General Donor-Master of Huayan Temple. At that time, virtue was not isolated: Fazhao, Wuzhuo, and Chengguan had appeared in the world. When Master Guan composed his Commentary on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and the ocean-like assembly gathered like clouds, they invited Yun to be the lecture master, providing daily for a thousand monks. For more than ten years, provisions were never exhausted. All said, "There is an inexhaustible store of rice and flour," and as the years passed, it appeared quite bountiful. A monk of a neighboring cloister, Yiyuan—also a great master of the age—thought that Yun had long managed the permanent monastic property and privately slandered him, claiming he lacked an impartial mind and was greedy. At night, a spirit told Yuan, "The Senior Monastic is one among the thousand Buddhas, yet you utter disparaging words. If you do not repent, you shall fall into the evil paths." The next morning, Yuan kissed his feet in repentance and apology; such was his verification. When the purge under Emperor Wuzong arrived, Yun hid in the mountain valleys, never abandoning the realm of Mañjuśrī's transformation. Less than a year later, Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, decreeing that the various temples of Wutai ordain fifty monks, imperial gifts of robes were offered, and the mountain gates reopened. Yun served as Senior Monastic of the ten temples and General Donor-Master for construction across the mountain gates. In the seventh year of the Dazhong era [853], together with travelers from across the realm, he established an unrestricted assembly for the fourfold assembly, providing exquisite and wondrous offerings. After one month, he said to the great assembly, "I wish to rest my frail bones for a time, calming my mind and withdrawing my traces. As for assisting in the affairs of the community, I can do no more; I entrust it to the capable and wise to follow in my footsteps." He then sat peacefully in a pure chamber and passed away, at the age of seventy-seven, with a monastic age of fifty-eight.