宋高僧傳 30.6

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釋廣脩，俗姓留氏，東陽下崑人也。淑質貞亮，早預邃師之門，研窮教迹，學者雲擁。日誦法華、維摩、金光明、梵網、四分戒本。六時行道弗休，彌年更篤。每一歲行懺法七七日，則第四隨自意三昧也。開成三年，日本國僧圓載來躬請法，台州刺史韋珩。請講止觀于郡齋。以會昌三年癸亥歲二月十六日終于禪林本寺，俗壽七十三，法臘五十二。遷神于金地道場，法付門人物外焉。咸通七年，門人良汶發墳火葬，淘收舍利一千餘粒，重塔緘藏焉。又湖州開元寺釋高閑，本烏程人也。髫年卓躒，范露異才。受法已還，有隣堅志，苦學勞形，未甞少惰。後入長安，於薦福、西明等寺隷習經律，克精講貫。宣宗重興佛法，召入對御前草聖，遂賜紫衣，仍預臨洗懺戒壇，號十望大德。性情節操，矗然難屈。老思歸鄉，終于本寺。弟子鑒宗，勅署無上大師，亦得閑之筆法。閑常好將霅川白紵書真草之蹤，與人為學法焉。

Śramaṇa Guangxiu, whose secular surname was Liu, was a native of Xiakun in Dongyang. With a pure character and upright clarity, he early entered the gate of Master Sui, thoroughly examining the traces of the teachings, and students gathered around him like clouds. Daily he recited the Lotus Sūtra, the Vimalakīrti, the Suvarṇaprabhāsa, the Fanwang, and the Sifen jieben. During the six periods of the day, he practiced the Way without rest, becoming even more devoted as the years passed. Every year he practiced the repentance ritual for seven weeks, which was the fourth samādhi of following one's own intent. In the third year of the Kaicheng era, the monk Enzai from Japan came in person to request the Dharma. Wei Heng, the governor of Taizhou, invited him to lecture on Śamatha-vipaśyanā in the commandery hall. On the sixteenth day of the second month of the guihai year, the third year of the Huichang era, he passed away at his home temple of Shanlin, with a worldly age of seventy-three and a dharma age of fifty-two. His spirit was moved to the Jindi Bodhimanda, and the Dharma was entrusted to his disciple Wuwai. In the seventh year of the Xiantong era, his disciple Liangwen opened the grave and cremated him, washing and collecting more than a thousand grains of śarīra, which were sealed and stored within duplicate stupas. There was also Śramaṇa Gaoxian of Kaiyuan Temple in Huzhou, originally a native of Wucheng. In his youth he was outstanding, revealing extraordinary talent in his conduct. After receiving the Dharma, he showed resolute determination toward his neighbors, wearing down his body through arduous study, never being the least bit indolent. Later he entered Chang'an, where at temples such as Jianfu and Ximing he devoted himself to studying the scriptures and the vinaya, excelling in lecture and recitation. When Emperor Xuanzong revived the Buddhist Dharma, he summoned him to face the imperial presence and write cursive script as a master; he was thereupon granted a purple robe and was further invited to attend the purificatory repentance ordination platform, holding the title of 'Great Virtue of the Ten Prospects.' By nature, he had lofty integrity and steadfast principles, towering and difficult to bend. In his old age, thinking of returning to his hometown, he passed away at his home temple. His disciple Jianzong was imperially appointed as the Supreme Great Master, and also acquired Gaoxian's calligraphic technique. Gaoxian often liked to write in regular and cursive scripts on white ramie cloth from the Zha River, offering it to others as a model for their study.