大明高僧傳 8.35

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釋道冲字癡絕。武信長江荀氏子也。首參杭之妙果曹源生和尚大悟玄旨。出世嘉禾之天寧。次遷蔣山雪峯。無何奉旨住四明天童三年。詔補靈隱。時京兆尹建法華寺。特奏請師為開山第一代。允之未赴。宋理宗降勅命主杭洲雙徑。師謂眾曰。不赴法華則不信。違徑山之命則不恭。既失恭與信。何以為後學法。遂慵然就法華開堂。月餘即啣旨登徑山。於是一眾響合歡聲若雷。臨入滅乃手書記敘得法之由。上堂說法辭眾。入方丈囑後事。至夜分正坐與眾論道移時蛻然而逝。當理宗三年三月十五日也。世壽八十二。僧臘六十一。荼毘舍利瑩然。弟子分塔二處。一于本山菖蒲田玉芝菴。一于金陵玉山菴。

Śramaṇa Shi Daochong, styled Chijue, was a son of the Xun family of Changjiang in Wuxin. He first studied under the preceptor Caoyuan Sheng of Miaoguo [Temple] in Hangzhou and had a great awakening to the profound purport. He appeared in the world [as abbot] at Tianning in Jiahe, then transferred to Xuefeng on Jiangshan. Before long, he received an imperial decree to reside [as abbot] at Tiantong in Siming for three years, and an edict appointed him to fill the vacancy at Lingyin. At that time, the governor of the capital built Fahua Temple and submitted a special memorial requesting the master to be its founding patriarch of the first generation. He consented, but had not yet departed when Emperor Lizong of the Song issued an imperial decree ordering him to preside over Shuangjing in Hangzhou. The master said to the assembly: "If I do not go to Fahua, that would be untrustworthy; if I disobey the decree for Jingshan, that would be irreverent. Having lost both reverence and trustworthiness, how could I serve as a model for later students?" He then casually went to Fahua, opened the hall, and after a month or so, bearing the imperial decree, ascended Mount Jing. Thereupon the whole assembly harmonized in unison, their shouts of joy like thunder. When he approached entering extinction, he wrote an account with his own hand narrating the circumstances of his obtaining the Dharma. He ascended the hall to preach the Dharma, took leave of the assembly, entered the abbot's quarters, and gave instructions regarding future affairs. At midnight, sitting upright, he discussed the Dao with the assembly; after some time, he sloughed off his mortal frame and passed away. It was the fifteenth day of the third month in the third year of [Baoqing of Emperor] Lizong. His worldly age was eighty-two; his dharma age was sixty-one. After the jhāpita, the śarīra were lustrous and clear. His disciples divided them into stūpas at two locations: one at Yuzhi Hermitage in Changputian on his home mountain, and one at Yushan Hermitage in Jinling.