大明高僧傳 2.19

2.19

釋達益巴未知何國人。少為苾芻事帝師。十有三年侍聽言論。陶熏滋久欝成美器。凡大小乘律論及祕密部皆得乎理之所歸。帝師西還。送至臨洮命依綽思吉大士。十有九年聞所未聞。道益精萃。秦人請居古佛寺。其六波羅蜜靡所不修。兼通賢首之教。於是名譽四表道重三朝。元武宗踐祚召問法要稱旨所賜雖厚辭不受。未久乞歸許之。將謀以終自許。俄而復召還京。大宣法化。帝親臨聽特賜弘法普濟三藏之號。命鑄金印及紫方袍以旌異之。勅王公大臣皆咨決心要。延祐五年八月十有六日無疾端坐而化。壽七十有三。帝命兩宮賜幣助葬。皇太子宰輔致奠勅有司衛送全身建塔。諡曰祐聖國師。

It is not known what country Śramaṇa Shi Dayiba came from. As a young bhikṣu, he served the Imperial Preceptor. For thirteen years, he attended him and listened to his discourses; through long cultivation and influence, he blossomed into a fine vessel. In all the vinaya, treatises, and esoteric tantras of the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna, he grasped the ultimate principle to which they lead. When the Imperial Preceptor returned to the West, Dayiba escorted him to Lintao, where he was instructed to rely on the Mahāsattva Chos kyi. For nineteen years, he heard what he had never heard before, and his cultivation grew ever more refined. The people of Qin invited him to reside at Gufu Temple. There was none of the six pāramitās that he did not cultivate, and he was also well-versed in the teachings of Xianshou. Thereupon, his reputation spread in all directions, and his way was revered across three imperial reigns. When Yuan Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne, he summoned him to inquire into the essentials of the Dharma; his answers suited the imperial intent, and though the bestowals were lavish, he declined and would not accept them. Before long, he begged to return, which was granted, intending to spend his remaining days as he wished. Soon afterward, he was summoned back to the capital to broadly propagate the Dharma transformation. The Emperor attended in person to listen, specially bestowing upon him the title Tripiṭaka Master of Vast Dharma and Universal Deliverance, and ordered that a gold seal and a purple square robe be cast and made to honour him. Princes, dukes, and high ministers were decreed to consult him on essential questions of the mind. On the sixteenth day of the eighth month in the fifth year of Yanyou [1318], without illness, he sat upright and underwent transformation. His age was seventy-three. The Emperor ordered both palaces to bestow textiles to assist the burial; the Crown Prince and chief ministers offered sacrifices; and the authorities were commanded to escort his whole body to be entombed in a stūpa. He was posthumously named State Preceptor Yousheng.