宋高僧傳 28.31

28.31

釋普勝，姓張氏，深州陸澤人也。幼歲情愛媮薄，俄決志趨五臺山華嚴寺，師事超化大師。或問之曰：「子胡以越山踰域而求出家？彼饒陽者，豈無仁祠哲匠乎？」勝對曰：「附神驥可以日千里矣。某知妙吉淨剎感徵膠戾，令我小凡速成果證，可不是乎？」眾聆斯說，曰：「任氣小兒，有此高識，我曹俱弗如也。」勝曰：「某非衽金革死而不厭之徒也，願入慈門而思利物耳。」迨乎受具，南臨潞府講通《上生經》矣。聞崇法大師傳《唯識論》，盛化洛都，往從學焉。凡百章疏，經目便識之。不幾稔閒，習通精贍。勝所傳者中山貞辯《鈔》，講多誤失所然，昌言曰：「繁略不均，解判非當。」乃刪多補少為四卷，行于世。太祖神德皇帝賜紫衣，師號曰宣教也。以太平興國四年秋七月四日示疾，終于淨土院，享壽六十三，坐四十三夏。門人等收舍利葬于龍門山寶應寺西阜，建塔旌表之。

Śramaṇa Pusheng, surnamed Zhang, was a native of Luze in Shenzhou. In his youth his worldly attachments were slight, and he suddenly resolved to go to Huayan Temple on Mount Wutai, where he served Grand Master Chaohua as his teacher. Someone asked him, saying: 'Why do you cross mountains and pass beyond borders to seek ordination? In Raoyang over there, are there no benevolent sanctuaries or wise masters?' Sheng replied: 'By attaching oneself to a divine steed, one can travel a thousand li in a single day. I know that the wondrous auspicious signs and spiritual traces at the pure sanctuary of Mañjuśrī are deeply potent, enabling a petty ordinary person like me to quickly attain realization. Is this not so?' When the assembly heard this, they said: 'For a child of spirited temperament to possess such elevated understanding, none of us can compare to him.' Sheng said: 'I am not of the sort who puts on metal armor and dies without regret; I only wish to enter the gate of compassion and contemplate benefiting beings.' When he received the full precepts, he went south to Lu Prefecture and lectured through the Maitreya's Rebirth Above Sūtra. Hearing that Grand Master Chongfa was transmitting the Vijñaptimātratā-śāstra and widely converting beings in Luoyang, he went to study under him. Whatever commentaries and subcommentaries met his eyes, he understood them at once. In just a few years, he mastered them with thorough proficiency. What Sheng transmitted was Zhenbian's Commentary from Zhongshan, in which many lectures missed the proper points; Sheng proclaimed: 'The expansions and condensations are unequal, and the explanations and judgments are inappropriate.' He then excised the superfluous and supplemented what was lacking into four volumes, which circulated in the world. Emperor Taizu the Divine and Virtuous bestowed upon him a purple robe and the master's title 'Proclaimer of the Teachings'. On the fourth day of the autumn seventh month in the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo (979), he manifested illness and passed away at Jingtu Cloister, living to the age of sixty-three, having sat forty-three retreats. His disciples collected his relics and buried them on the western mound of Baoying Temple on Mount Longmen, erecting a stūpa to commemorate him.