宋高僧傳 28.27

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釋延壽，姓王，本錢塘人也。兩浙有國時為吏，督納軍須，其性純直，口無二言，誦徹《法華經》，聲不輟響。屬翠巖參公盛化，壽捨妻孥，削染登戒。甞於台嶺天柱峯九旬習定，有鳥類尺鷃，巢棲于衣襵中。乃得韶禪師決擇所見，遷遁于雪竇山，除誨人外，瀑布前坐諷禪默。衣無繒纊，布襦卒歲；食無重味，野蔬斷中。漢南國王錢氏最所欽尚，請壽行方等懺，贖物類放生。汎愛慈柔，或非理相干，顏貌不動。誦《法華》計一萬三千許部。多勵信人營造塔像。自無貯畜，雅好詩道，著《萬善同歸》、《宗鏡》等錄數千萬言。高麗國王覽其錄，遣使遺金線織成袈裟、紫水精數珠、金澡罐等。以開寶八年乙亥終于住寺，春秋七十二，法臘三十七。葬于大慈山，樹亭誌焉。

Śramaṇa Yanshou, surnamed Wang, was originally a native of Qiantang. When the two Zhe regions were an independent state, he served as a clerk supervising the collection of military provisions. By nature he was pure and upright, never speaking with two tongues; he chanted the Lotus Sūtra completely, his voice resounding without pause. When Master Cuiyan Can was widely transforming beings, Shou abandoned his wife and children, shaved his head, and received the precepts. He once practiced meditation on Tianzhu Peak of Mount Tiantai for ninety days; a bird resembling a quail nested in the folds of his robe. Having received confirmation of his realization from Chan Master Shao, he withdrew and retreated to Mount Xuedou, where aside from instructing others, he sat in silent Chan meditation and recited sūtras before a waterfall. For clothing he wore neither silk nor wadding, passing the years in a coarse cloth robe; for food he did not partake of fine flavors, fasting past midday on wild vegetables. King Qian of the Southern Han [region] held him in the highest veneration and invited Shou to conduct the Vaipulya Repentance and ransom living creatures to release them. He had universal love and was gentle and compassionate; if provoked unjustly, his expression never altered. He recited the Lotus Sūtra approximately thirteen thousand times. He frequently exhorted faithful patrons to build stūpas and cast images. He kept no stores himself, was deeply fond of poetry, and composed treatises such as Wanshan tonggui (All Good Deeds Returning to the Same Source) and Zongjing lu (Record of the Source Mirror), numbering tens of millions of words. The King of Goryeo read his records and dispatched envoys presenting a kāṣāya woven with gold thread, prayer beads of purple crystal, a golden water flask, and other items. In the eighth year of Kaibao, the yihai year (975), he passed away at his dwelling temple, at the age of seventy-two, with a dharma age of thirty-seven. He was buried on Mount Daci, and a pavilion was erected with a commemorative inscription.