[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大明高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062) › 8.4 # 大明高僧傳 8.4 大明高僧傳 8.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.8.4) 釋德昇號頑庵。漢州何氏子也。幼溺塵滓稍長夢醒。二十得度游心講席。三學四眾以義虎推焉。忽以支解自嫌翻然易輒。更衣頂笠謁文殊道和尚。懇示佛法省要之旨。道說偈曰。契丹打破波斯寨。奪得寶珠村裏賣。十字街頭窮乞兒。腰間掛箇風流袋。昇將擬對。道叱曰。莫錯。於是退參三年。方領前旨。入閩鼓山禮覲竹庵問。國師不跨石門句意旨如何。竹庵應聲曰。閒言語。言下頓悟。後有僧問。如何是無位真人。昇曰。聞時富貴見後貧窮。釋慧溫號蘿菴產于福州鄭氏。與昇同依竹庵於東。未幾因竹庵謝事。自以。胸次而未灑然。又謁高庵悟南華昺草堂清諸耆宿。皆蒙賞音。會竹庵遷閩乾元。溫復歸省庵曰。情生智隔。想變體殊。不用停囚長智。道將一句來。溫釋然悟入呈偈曰。拶出通身是口何妨罵雨訶風。昨夜前村猛虎咬殺南山大蟲。竹庵肯之。後住通州狼山。與昇共樹竹庵赤幟為一方良導也。 > Shi Desheng was styled Wan'an. He was a son of the He family of Hanzhou. In his youth, he sank in the worldly mire; as he grew older, he awoke as if from a dream. At twenty, he was ordained and directed his mind to the lecture seats. The three trainings and the four assemblies praised him as a tiger of doctrinal meaning. Suddenly disliking the piecemeal analysis, he completely changed his course. Changing his clothes and putting on a rain-hat, he visited Venerable Wenshu Dao and earnestly begged for the essential point of the Buddhadharma. Dao spoke a verse: / "The Khitans crushed the Persian fortress, / Seized the precious pearl, and sold it in the village. / A poor beggar at the crossroads, / At his waist hangs a stylish pouch." / When Sheng was about to reply, Dao shouted, "Do not make a mistake!" Thereupon he withdrew and investigated for three years before he grasped the earlier meaning. Entering Min, he climbed Gushan to pay respects to Zhu'an, asking, "What is the meaning of the National Preceptor's line about not stepping past the stone gate?" Zhu'an answered immediately, "Idle words." At these words he was suddenly enlightened. Later, a monk asked, "What is the true person of no rank?" Sheng said, "When heard of, rich and noble; after seeing, poor and destitute." Śramaṇa Huiwen was styled Luo'an and was born to the Zheng family of Fuzhou. Together with Sheng, he relied on Zhu'an in the East. Before long, because Zhu'an resigned from his duties, and feeling in his own chest that he was not yet clear, he also visited various senior masters such as Gao'an Wu, Nanhua Bing, and Caotang Qing, all of whom recognized his understanding. It happened that Zhu'an moved to Ganyuan in Min; Wen returned to visit him. Zhu'an said, "When feeling arises, wisdom is blocked; when thought alters, substance differs. There is no need to detain a prisoner to foster intellect; speak a phrase!" Wen was released and awakened, presenting a verse: / "Pushed out, the whole body is a mouth; what harm in cursing the rain and scolding the wind? / Last night in the village ahead, a fierce tiger bit to death the big bug of the southern mountain." / Zhu'an approved him. Later, he resided at Langshan in Tongzhou. Together with Sheng, he raised Zhu'an's red banner and served as a fine guide for the region. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.8.3) - [Next: 8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.8.5) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062~en-mt.8.4) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [續傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.33.6) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.8.4) · Pramāṇa