宋高僧傳 7.32

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釋從隱，姓劉氏，洛陽三鄉人也。丱年敏慧，誓欲出塵，二親既聽，乃投本邑竹閣院，依師誦習，陶練靈府。尋於嵩陽受戒畢，就長水聽采，纔歷數年，克通《百法》、《中觀》、《彌陀》三經論焉。而諲師年老，深許隱之博達性相。後於洛布金院赴請敷演。至後唐清泰中，諲付講座，日為眾三登法席。夏中長晷，覽藏經一袟，精進苦節，人無與比。乾祐二年正月，示疾而終，俗壽五十三，僧臘三十二。乃依天竺法火化，收合真體，圓淨堪愛，門人樹塔，至今存焉。次有長水縣縣泉院釋夢江者，姓楊氏，本邑人也。神彩灑落，超拔凡態，遂願出家，恒誦《仁王》、《般若》。進具後講《百法論》。清泰中龍門廣化寺請為眾開演，遇帝幸其寺宣問，妙辯天逸，悅可上心，時於御前賜紫袈裟，確乎不受。訓導二十餘年，講罷行道禮佛，日唯一食。慈忍於物，罕逢慍色。周顯德三年疾終，緇素悲慕，為其建塔矣。

Shi Congyin, surnamed Liu, was a native of Sanxiang in Luoyang. In his youth, he was quick-witted and vowed to leave the dust of the world. Once both parents gave permission, he went to the Zhuge Cloister in his home district, relying on a master to chant and study, cultivating his spiritual faculties. Soon, after receiving ordination at Songyang, he went to Changshui to listen and study; after only a few years, he was able to thoroughly penetrate three scriptures and treatises: the Śatadharma, the Madhyamaka, and the Amitābha. Master Yin was old, and he deeply praised Yin's broad penetration of the nature and characteristics [of dharmas]. Later, he went to the Fujin Cloister in Luoyang to lecture upon request. During the Qingtai era of the Later Tang, Yin entrusted him with the lecture seat, and he mounted the Dharma seat three times daily for the assembly. During the long summer days, he would peruse a case of the Tripiṭaka scriptures; his vigorous exertion and austere discipline were unmatched. In the first month of the second year of Qianyou, he manifested illness and passed away, at a worldly age of fifty-three and a saṅgha age of thirty-two. Following the Indian method of cremation, they gathered his true remains, which were round, pure, and delightful; his disciples erected a pagoda, which exists to this day. Next, there was Shi Mengjiang of the Xianquan Cloister in Changshui County, surnamed Yang, a native of that county. His spiritual demeanor was free and easy, transcending worldly patterns. Thereupon, he vowed to leave home, and constantly recited the Renwang and the Prajñā[pāramitā]. After advancing to full ordination, he lectured on the Baifa lun. During the Qingtai era, Guanghua Temple in Longmen invited him to preach for the assembly; it happened that the emperor visited the temple and made inquiries of him, and his marvelous eloquence was divinely effortless, delighting the imperial mind. He was bestowed a purple robe before the emperor on the spot, but steadfastly refused it. He taught and guided for over twenty years; after lecturing, he would practice the Way and prostrate to the Buddha, eating only one meal a day. He was compassionate and patient toward all things, and rarely showed a look of anger. In the third year of Xiande of the Zhou, he died of illness, and monastics and layfolk mourned him in sorrow, erecting a pagoda for him.