宋高僧傳 30.16

30.16

釋慧沐，俗姓祝氏，即世暨陽人也，代為著姓。沐幼沖之歲，家法嚴明，訓授儒經，欝成造秀。將隨計吏，謁覺智寺契真禪師，即諡大觀者是也，因以微諷。沐由茲開悟。明年剃度，乃詣洪井，禮觀音禪師，頓了心契。咸通七載，還歸故鄉，邑宰韋公迺率信心者，造棲真院，四方禪客無遠不屆。廉使裴延魯召沐，因營鑑水坊精舍成，還以坊為題牓，既而居之，安而能遷。允明州掾齊肇請，住玉笥峯，未久而卒。壽八十八，臘四十五，則。乾寧五年七月三日也。

Śramaṇa Huimu, whose secular surname was Zhu, was a native of Jiyang for generations, belonging to an eminent lineage. In his tender youth, the family discipline was strict and clear; he was instructed in the Confucian classics and flourished into an outstanding talent. When he was about to accompany the accounting clerk [to the capital], he visited Chan Master Qizhen of Juezhi Temple—that is, the one posthumously titled Daguan—who subtly admonished him. From this, Mu attained awakening. The following year, he received tonsure and proceeded to Hongjing, where he paid homage to Chan Master Guanyin and instantly understood the mind-tally. In the seventh year of the Xiantong era, he returned to his home district; the county magistrate Master Wei then led the faithful to construct Qizhen Cloister, and Chan travelers from the four quarters arrived from far and near. Surveillance Commissioner Pei Yanlu summoned Mu; thereupon a vihāra was built in the Jianshui Quarter and inscribed with the name of the quarter. After living there, he was content yet able to relocate. Assenting to the request of Qi Zhao, assistant magistrate of Mingzhou, he went to reside on Mount Yusi, and died not long after, at the age of eighty-eight, with a monastic age of forty-five. This was on the third day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Qianning era.