宋高僧傳 28.29

28.29

釋義莊，姓張氏，滑臺人也。當免懷之日，及就傅之秋，神彩克明，塵機頓去。乃於本府開元寺歸善財之列，從升戒德。因樂遊方，始於洛邑采聽《法華》，見識過人，闡揚訓物，眾請居九曜院焉。匪虧法食，用濟往來。慈以利生，始末無間。建隆初左散騎常侍申公奏賜紫衣，稟學僧尼三十餘員。莊性敦勤，進講外兢兢五十年間，二時禮懺，至老不替。於太平興國戊寅年八月奄終，俗壽七十八，僧臘五十九。明年二月，遷塔于龍門菩提寺西焉。

Śramaṇa Yizhuang, surnamed Zhang, was a native of Huatai. When he left his parents' arms and reached the age of going to a tutor, his spiritual radiance was distinctly bright, and worldly entanglements suddenly vanished. Thereupon, at Kaiyuan Temple in his home prefecture, he joined the ranks of Sudhana and ascended to the virtuous status of the precepts. Fond of itinerant wandering, he began by hearing and studying the Lotus Sūtra in Luoyang. His insight exceeded ordinary men; he expounded the teachings and instructed living beings, and the community requested that he reside in the Jiuyao Cloister. Without any shortfall in the Dharma food, he assisted those coming and going. With compassion he benefited living beings without intermission from beginning to end. At the beginning of the Jianlong era (960), Left Policy Adviser Lord Shen memorialized the throne to bestow on him a purple robe; more than thirty monks and nuns received instruction under him. Zhuang was earnest and diligent by nature; beyond lecturing, for fifty years he was scrupulously watchful, paying homage and repenting twice a day without fail even into old age. In the eighth month of the wuyin year of the Taiping Xingguo era (978), he suddenly passed away at the worldly age of seventy-eight, with a saṅgha age of fifty-nine. In the second month of the following year, his stūpa was relocated to the west of Bodhi Temple in Longmen.