宋高僧傳 29.46

29.46

釋行覺，姓劉氏，鉅鹿人也。穉歲英敏，立不易方，負志出家，親難沮勸。早投本部永泰伽藍，受業納戒。後於洛都遇會禪師開悟玄理，秉心矯跡。遊方見江陵古寺，殿宇摧墮，闃而無人。覺卸囊挂錫。明日，見樵夫驚怪，言「此是國昌寺，廢已三周。」將知人事相因，道從緣會，學者至矣，鄉人來矣，欝成一寺。時節使崔尚書請召入城，謝而不赴。檀施繼臻，乃興盛化。貞元十五年告終，年九十二。荊楚之人營塔焉。又南嶽山釋皓玉者，趙氏之子，上黨人也。出塵于法清寺，後於荷澤會下，大明心印，入嶽中蘭若養道。衡陽太守王展員外傾重。終時年八十餘，興元中入塔云。

Shi Xingjue, whose secular surname was Liu, was a native of Julu. Quick-witted in his childhood, steadfast and unchanging in purpose, he resolved to become a monk, and his relatives could not dissuade him. He early joined Yongtai Monastic Compound in his home prefecture, receiving his training and taking the precepts. Later, in the capital of Luoyang, he met Chan Master Hui, who awakened him to the profound principle, leading him to hold fast to his mind and rectify his conduct. Traveling abroad, he saw an ancient temple in Jiangling whose halls and buildings had collapsed, silent and deserted. Jue put down his sack and hung up his staff. The next day, a woodcutter saw him and expressed astonishment, saying: 'This is Guochang Temple, which has been abandoned for three cycles.' Thus one knows that human affairs condition one another and that the Way accords with the meeting of causes: learners arrived, villagers came, and it flourished into a complete temple. At that time, Military Commissioner Minister Cui invited him into the city, but he declined and did not go. Generous donations arrived in succession, and the transformative teaching flourished greatly. In the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan he announced his end at the age of ninety-two. The people of Jingchu erected a stupa for him. There was also Shi Haoyu of the Southern Peak, a son of the Zhao clan and a native of Shangdang. He left secular life at Faqing Temple; later, under the assembly of Heze, he fully comprehended the mind-seal and entered a hermitage on the Southern Peak to nurture the Way. Wang Zhan, the vice-director and prefect of Hengyang, deeply revered him. At his death he was over eighty years old, and was entombed in a stupa during the Xingyuan era.