宋高僧傳 28.33

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釋師律，范陽人也，姓賈氏，大丞相魏國公耽之後，《唐書》有傳。律弱齓端謹，不與群童鬪伎。裁十五歲，於憫中寺落髮，禮貞涉為師。嚴肅垂勗，所履不出邊幅之外。涉默異之，曰：「不可屈身下位而抑其名節乎！成比丘已，可去遊方。」律奉訓南逝，得其禪要。迴錫故鄉。時梁世迨大周朝，其間帝王重臣，率皆宗仰。居于夷門山——舊封禪也——，營構乎殿宇聖儀，豐厨祕藏，供僧饒羨。約勒後生，別院翕如，罔違彝憲。朝廷以紫衣徽號，用旌厥德，律視之蔑如也。一日謂弟子庶幾曰：「吾無願不報，厥齡欲頹，汝宜知之。勿俗情而悲悼也。」乾德二祀正月二十三日而終，春秋八十一，法臘六十二。太平興國五年三月，改葬于北部浚儀之原，進士賈守廉為塔銘焉。

Śramaṇa Shilü was a native of Fanyang, surnamed Jia; he was a descendant of the Grand Chancellor and Duke of Wei, Jia Dan, who has a biography in the Tangshu. From his childhood days, Lü was upright and prudent, never engaging in games of skill with other children. At barely fifteen years of age, he shaved his head at Minzhong Temple and took Zhenshe as his teacher. Strictly disciplined, he held to standards without straying beyond boundaries. She silently marveled at him and said: 'One should not bend oneself into a low position and suppress one's reputation and integrity! Once you become a bhikṣu, you may go wandering.' Lü obeyed the instruction and journeyed south, obtaining the essentials of Chan. Carrying his staff, he returned to his native land. From the Liang dynasty down to the Great Zhou dynasty, emperors and important ministers throughout that time all revered him. He resided at Mount Yimen—the ancient site of the feng and shan sacrifices—where he constructed halls, sacred statues, a bountiful kitchen, and a secret treasury, providing for the monks in abundance. Disciplining the younger generation, his separate cloister was harmonious, never violating standard regulations. The court used a purple robe and an honorific title to honor his virtue, but Lü regarded them as nothing. One day he said to his disciple Shuiji: 'I have no vow left unfulfilled, and my years are about to decline; you should know this. Do not follow worldly sentiments and mourn in sorrow.' On the twenty-third day of the first month in the second year of Qiande (964), he passed away at the age of eighty-one, with a dharma age of sixty-two. In the third month of the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo (980), he was reburied on the plain of Junyi in the northern sector; the jinshi Jia Shoulian composed the stūpa inscription.