宋高僧傳 7.14

7.14

釋令諲，姓楊氏，陝府閿鄉人也。幼而履操，迴求出俗，得本邑之師授《淨名經》。年既應法，乃納戒律，大、小乘教兼而學之。於名數法門，染成淳粹。《彌陀》、《中觀》斡及膏腴，聲光振發，莫之與京。因遊洛南長水，遇歸心檀信構伽藍，就中講貫。一論一經，三十載中宣化，計各五十餘遍。日別誦《維摩》、《上生》以為恒課。執行持心而絕瑕纇，遠近宗承，若望梅者得飲焉。以清泰二年乙未歲終于邑寺，春秋七十一，法臘五十一。其年遷于山麓，徇西域法火葬，獲舍利，學人、檀越共建塔焉。

Shi Lingyin was surnamed Yang and was a native of Wenshang in Shan Prefecture. In his youth he maintained moral conduct and turned his mind to seeking renunciation of the world; he found a master in his native town who taught him the *Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra*. When he reached the lawful age, he accepted the precepts and studied both the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna teachings. In the Dharma doors of doctrinal categories, he attained pure refinement. Regarding the *Amitābha* and *Madhyamaka*, he grasped their richness; his renown burst forth, and none could rival him. Later, while traveling through Changshui south of Luoyang, he met devoted donors who constructed a monastery, and he lectured and studied within it. Expounding one treatise and one scripture over thirty years, he delivered each of them more than fifty times. Every day he recited the *Vimalakīrti* and the *Rebirth [in Tuṣita]* as his regular daily practice. In maintaining conduct and upholding his mind he was free of any blemish, so that people from near and far turned to him as their authority, just like those longing for plums who finally get a drink. In the second year of Qingtai, the year yihai, he died at the district temple, at the age of seventy-one, with a dharma age of fifty-one. In that year, he was moved to the foot of the mountain and cremated according to the custom of the Western Regions; śarīra relics were obtained, and disciples and donors jointly erected a stūpa.