宋高僧傳 30.34

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釋無迹，姓史氏，朔方人也。當宣宗御宇，佛法中興。大中九年，年正十三，決志捨家，投白草院法空大師為弟子，操執密縝，拂攘囂塵。咸通三年，用賓于京室，得戒度於西明寺矣。凡於百藝，悉願遊焉。慕定林威能畫，戴安道能琴，我則講貫之餘，兼而綜習。先是唐恒夫甞作鎮朔方，後於輦下相遇，以家僧之禮待焉。蓋知言行相高，復能唱導聞。恒夫白兩街功德使，請隷西明寺。旋屬懿宗皇帝於鳳翔法門寺迎真身，右宣副使張思廣奏迹充乎讚導，悅懌上心，宣賚稠厚。光啟中傳授佛頂熾盛光降諸星宿吉祥道場法，歸本府。府帥韓公聞其堪消分野之災，乃於鞠場結壇修飾，而多感應。景福中，太尉韓公創修廣福寺，奏迹住持。皆以律範繩之，塞垣閒求戒者必請為力生焉。梁乾化丙子歲，中書令韓公洙奏署師號曰鴻遠歟。後唐同光三年乙酉歲四月一日，坐終于丈室。筋骨如生，風神若在，蕃漢之人觀禮稱歎曰：「昔至德中當府龍興寺有高士辯才坐亡，遂漆布之。乾寧元年府帥舉奏，勅諡曰能覺。今迹師可不異時而同事哉！」中書令韓公命工布漆焉。莊宗朝軍府從事薛昭紀為碑頌德云。

Śramaṇa Wuji, whose secular surname was Shi, was a native of Shuofang. When Emperor Xuanzong ruled the realm, the Buddhadharma underwent a revival. In the ninth year of Dazhong, when he was just thirteen, he resolutely determined to leave home, presenting himself as a disciple to Grand Master Fakong of Baicao Cloister; his practice was rigorous and meticulous, brushing away the noisy dust of the world. In the third year of Xiantong, he was received as a guest at the capital and received ordination and upasampadā at Ximing Temple. Among all the hundreds of arts, he wished to engage in every one. He admired Dinglin Wei's skill in painting and Dai Andao's mastery of the zither, thinking: 'Aside from lecturing and studying, I too shall master and practice them.' Earlier, Tang Hengfu had once served as military governor of Shuofang; later, meeting him in the capital, he treated Wuji with the etiquette accorded a family monk, knowing that Wuji's words and conduct were equally exalted and that he was also famous for his guiding recitations. Hengfu reported to the Commissioners of Merit and Virtue of the Two Streets, requesting that Wuji be enrolled at Ximing Temple. Soon after, when Emperor Yizong welcomed the authentic śarīra at Famen Temple in Fengxiang, Zhang Siguang, Vice Commissioner of the Right Proclamation, memorialized that Wuji serve in chanting praise and guidance; he pleased the imperial mind, and the imperial gifts were lavish. In the Guangqi era, he was transmitted the method of the ritual site for the auspicious vanquishing of all asterisms by the blazing light of the Uṣṇīṣa, and returned to his home prefecture. The prefectural governor Lord Han heard that he was capable of dispelling disasters within their astrological station, and thereupon erected and decorated an altar on the polo grounds, where many supernatural resonances occurred. In the Jingfu era, Grand Defender Lord Han founded and renovated Guangfu Temple, memorializing that Wuji serve as its abbot. He regulated all matters with the vinaya standards, so that those along the frontier seeking the precepts always requested him as their upādhyāya. In the bingzi year of the Qianhua era of the Liang, Han Zhu, Director of the Secretariat, memorialized to grant him the master title Hongyuan. On the first day of the fourth month in the third year of Tongguang of the Later Tang (yiyou, 925 CE), he passed away sitting upright in his abbot's room. His sinews and bones remained as if alive, and his spiritual bearing persisted. Both non-Chinese and Chinese people who came to pay respects exclaimed in praise: 'Formerly, during the Zhide era, Biancai, a man of lofty virtue at Longxing Temple in this prefecture, died sitting upright and was subsequently lacquered with cloth. In the first year of Qianning, the prefectural commander memorialized the throne, and he was posthumously granted the title Nengjue. May not Master Wuji now do the same thing at a different time?' Secretariat Director Lord Han ordered artisans to lacquer the body with cloth. During the reign of Zhuangzong, Xue Zhaoji, an administrative assistant in the military government, composed a stele inscription praising his virtue.