宋高僧傳 30.4

30.4

釋好直，俗姓丁氏，會稽諸暨人也。幼不喜俗事，酒肉葷茹，天然不食。因投杭塢山藏師落髮。元和初受具於杭之天竺寺。凡百經律論疏鈔，嗜其腴潤。一旦芒屩策杖，詣洪州禪門，洞達心要，虛往實歸。却於本郡大慶寺，求益者提訓，凡二十餘載，為江左名僧。見儒士能青眼，故名輩多與之遊，往往戲為詩句，辭皆錯愕。凡從事廉問護戎於越，入境籍聲實而造其戶，不獨能誘，亦善與人交者。大和中遊五臺，路出京邑，一夕而去。前護戎郄志榮、宋常春二內侍尤味其道，孜孜遠招。開成初再至京國，二貴人同力唱和，牽裓虐留，致安國寺大方丈以居之。王畿龍象，莫不欽重。無何召入為供奉大德，非所好也，徇俗受之。然歸歟之歎，未甞少棄。四年十月二十五日囑累弟子訖，奄然而寂，春秋五十六，夏三十二。郄、宋二家率財權瘞于滻水，東人皆悲之，門人鑑諸後歸葬于崇山之南，華嚴寺起塔。會昌四年，起居舍人韋絢為碑紀代焉。

Śramaṇa Haozhi, whose secular surname was Ding, was a native of Zhuji in Kuaiji. In his youth, he took no pleasure in mundane affairs; naturally, he ate neither wine, meat, nor pungent roots. He therefore went to Master Zang of Mount Hangwu to shave his hair. Early in the Yuanhe era, he received the full precepts at Tianzhu Temple in Hangzhou. Among the hundreds of scriptures, vinaya texts, treatises, commentaries, and subcommentaries, he savoured their richness. One day, wearing straw sandals and leaning on a staff, he proceeded to the Chan gate of Hongzhou, where he thoroughly penetrated the essentials of mind, going empty and returning full. He then went back to Daqing Temple in his native commandery to guide and instruct those seeking benefit for over twenty years, becoming an eminent monk of the region south of the Yangzi. When he met Confucian scholars, he looked upon them with favor; therefore, many renowned figures associated with him. He often playfully composed verses of poetry, the words of which were astonishing. Whenever officials served as surveillance commissioners or military governors in Yue, they would visit his door as soon as they entered the region, guided by his reputation and actual virtue. He was not only able to attract and guide others, but was also skilled in social interaction. During the Dahe era, he traveled to Mount Wutai, his route passing through the capital city, where he stayed only one night before departing. The former military commissioner Qie Zhirong and Palace Attendant Song Changchun particularly relished his Way and eagerly summoned him from afar. Early in the Kaicheng era, he arrived at the capital again; the two nobles joined their efforts to chant in unison, pulling at his hems and stubbornly detaining him, so that they installed him in the grand abbot's quarters of Anguo Temple to dwell there. Among the dragon-elephants of the royal capital, none failed to esteem and revere him. Before long, he was summoned to serve as an imperial attendant of great virtue. This was not what he liked, but he yielded to convention and accepted it. Yet his sighs of longing to return home were never once cast aside. On the twenty-fifth day of the tenth month of the fourth year, having finished his instructions to his disciples, he peacefully passed away at the age of fifty-six, with thirty-two summer retreats. The Qie and Song households pooled their funds to temporarily bury him by the Chan River; the people of the east all grieved for him. Later, his disciple Jianzhu brought his remains back to be buried south of Mount Chong, erecting a stupa at Huayan Temple. In the fourth year of the Huichang era, Wei Xuan, Retainer of the Court Cadre, composed a stele inscription to record his generation.