宋高僧傳 9.33

9.33

釋崇珪，姓姜氏，郟城人也。門傳儒素，相綴簪裾。自天寶已來，安史之亂，侵敗王略，家族遷蕩。父為商賈趨利，遵塗於鞏、洛間。父亡于逆旅，珪慨責曰：「少遭不造，孑遺哀煢！」遂議出家。至年十八，經業蔚通得度。俄有雲水之興，遊南嶽。棲息數齡起迴，樂南徐茅山，乃依棲霞寺。珪已登徑門，道聲洋溢。會贊皇李公德裕廉問是邦，延諸慈和寺。一交雅談，如遊形器之外，曰：「吾有幽憂之疾，非是居侯藩聚落之人也。」明歲遂行，重抵嵩少，居于嶽寺。太和戊申歲，洛下亢陽，唯嶽中雨信相繼。或謂為珪之德動龍神之故也。開成元年，贊皇公攝塚宰，請珪於洛龍興寺化徒。兩京緇白往來問道，檀施交駢。其所談法，宗秀之提唱，獲益明心者多矣。忽告眾決別，入方丈而滅，春秋八十六。白侍郎撰塔銘。會昌元年辛酉八月十日入塔云。次淮南都梁山釋全植，姓芮，光州人也。少稟異操，自言學作佛度生去。忽投本州榮光禪院大智下求度。師頗嚴謹，約其誦經。受具後，至洛陽，參問禪法，徹了無疑。辭師觀方至淮南都梁山，建立茅舍。太守衛文卿命於州治長壽寺化徒。衛侯問：「將來佛法隆替若何？」植曰：「真實之物無振，自古于今，往復軌躅。有為之法，四相遷流。法當陻厄。君侯翹足可見。」預言武宗毀教也。植終年九十三，門人建塔立碑。會昌四年甲子九月七日入浮圖焉。

Shi Chonggui, surnamed Jiang, was a native of Jiacheng. His family had passed down Confucian plainness, with unbroken lines of official robes and hairpins. From the Tianbao era onward, the rebellion of An and Shi disrupted the royal stratagems, and his family was uprooted. His father became a merchant pursuing profit, traveling the roads between Gong and Luo. When his father died at an inn, Gui sighed and reproached himself, saying, 'In my youth I suffered misfortune, left alone and wretched in grief!' He then resolved to leave home. Reaching the age of eighteen, he became thoroughly versed in scriptural studies and was ordained. Soon he felt the urge to roam like clouds and water, traveling to Mount Nanyue. After dwelling there for several years, he set out to return, enjoying Mount Mao in Nanxu, where he relied upon Qixia Temple. Gui had already entered the path, and his reputation for the Way overflowed. It happened that Duke Li Deyu of Zanhuang was inspecting this region and invited him to Cihe Temple. After an elegant conversation, feeling as though wandering beyond the realm of physical forms, Gui said, 'I have an ailment of deep melancholy; I am not one to dwell in the settlements of feudal princes.' The following year he departed, once again reaching Songshao, and resided at the temple on the peak. In the wushen year of the Taihe era, Luoyang suffered severe drought, yet on the peak rains arrived in succession. Some attributed this to Gui's virtue moving the dragon spirits. In the first year of Kaicheng, Duke Zanhuang served as prime minister and invited Gui to Longxing Temple in Luoyang to transform disciples. Clergy and laity from the two capitals came and went to inquire about the Way, and dāna offerings crowded in. In the Dharma he taught, he advocated the lineage of [Shen]xiu, and many were those who benefited by illuminating their minds. He suddenly bade farewell to the assembly, entered the abbot's quarters, and passed away at the age of eighty-six. Vice Minister Bai composed his stupa inscription. On the tenth day of the eighth month of the first year of Huichang (a xinyou year), he was interred in the stupa. Next is Shi Quanzhi of Mount Duliang in Huainan, surnamed Rui, a native of Guangzhou. From youth he possessed extraordinary conduct, saying of himself that he would learn to become a Buddha and deliver sentient beings. He suddenly turned to Dazhi at Rongguang Chan Cloister in his home prefecture to seek ordination. The master was quite strict and made an agreement regarding his scriptural recitation. After receiving the full precepts, he went to Luoyang to inquire into Chan teachings, understanding them thoroughly without doubt. Taking leave of his master to observe the directions, he arrived at Mount Duliang in Huainan and built a thatched hut. Prefect Wei Wenqing ordered him to transform disciples at Changshou Temple in the prefectural seat. Duke Wei asked, 'What will be the flourishing and decline of the Buddha-Dharma in the future?' Zhi said, 'The real substance does not flutter; from antiquity to the present, it returns along its tracks. The conditioned dharmas undergo the flow of the four characteristics. The Dharma is bound to suffer blockage and distress. Your Excellency will see it within the lifting of a foot.' This prophesied the destruction of the teaching by Emperor Wuzong. Zhi died at the age of ninety-three, and his disciples built a stupa and erected a stele. On the seventh day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Huichang (a jiazi year), he was interred in the stupa.