曆代法寶記 1.13.3

1.13.3

命弟子。 與吾取新淨衣。 吾今沐浴。 至夜半子時。 儼然坐化。 副元帥黃門侍郎杜相公。 初到成都府日。 聞金和上不可思議。 和上既化。 合有承後弟子。 遂就淨泉寺衡山寧國寺。 觀望見金和上在日蹤跡。 相公借問小師等。 合有承後弟子僧人得衣鉢者。 小師答。 亦無人承後。 和上在日有兩領袈裟。 一領衡山寧國寺。 一領留淨泉寺供養。 相公不信。 又問諸律師。 鴻漸遠聞。 金和上是善知識。 承上已來師師相傳授付囑衣鉢。 金和上既化。 承後弟子何在。 律師答相公云。 金禪師是外國蕃人。 亦無佛法。 在日亦不多說法語不能正。 在日雖足供養布施。 只空有福德。 弟子亦不閑佛法。 相公高鑒。 即知盡是嫉言。 即迴歸宅。 問親事孔目官馬良康然等。 知釰南有高行僧大德否。 馬良答。 院內常見節度軍將說。 蠶崖關西白崖山中有無住禪師。 得金和上衣鉢。 是承後弟子。 此禪師得業深厚。 亦不曾出山。 相公聞說。 向馬良等。 鴻漸遠聞。 金和上是大善知識。 昨自到衡山寧國寺淨泉寺。 問金和上親事弟子。 皆云。 無承後弟子及得衣鉢。 又問律師。 咸言毀謗。 據此蹤由。 白崖山無住禪師必是道者。 即於大衙日。 問諸軍將等。 知此管內有何名僧大德否。 節度副使牛望仙李靈應歸誠王董嘉會張溫陰洽張餘光張軫韋鸞秦逖等諮相公。 白崖山中有無住禪師。 金和上衣鉢在彼禪師處。 不可思議。 相公問牛望仙君等。 何以得知。 答。 望仙高大夫差充石碑營使。 為道場不遠。 數就頂禮知不可思議。 相公又問。 適言衣鉢在彼。 誰人的實。 秦逖張鍠諮儔曰。 逖等充左右巡虞侯。 金和上初滅度日。 兩寺親事弟子啾唧囑常侍向大夫說。 金和上信衣不知的實。 及不肯焚燒。 高大夫判付左右巡虞侯。 推問得實領過。 當日初只得兩領袈裟。 兩寺各得一領。 信衣不知尋處。 當日不知有蠶崖關西白崖山中有無住禪師。 後被差充十將領兵馬上西山打當狗城未進軍。 屯在石碑營。 寄住行營近道場。 逖共諸軍將齎供養到彼。 見此禪師。 與金和上容貌一種。 逖等初見。 將是金和上化身。 借問逗留。 知金和上衣鉢先遣人送。 被隱二年不送。 賣與僧人。 僧人得夜。 有神人遣還本主。 若不還必損汝命。 買人遞相告報。 後賣不得。 還到彼禪師處。 逖等初聞當時推尋不知袈裟居處。 今在此間。 即請頂禮亦不生難。 便擎袈裟出呈示諸軍將官健等。 所以知在彼處。 相公聞說。 奇哉奇哉。 僧人隱沒佛法不如俗人。 節度副使李靈應張溫牛望仙歸城王薰嘉會韋鸞秦逖等。 即眾連署狀請和上。 相公向諸軍將知無住禪師。 自有心請。 相公差光祿鄉慕容鼎為專使。 即令出文牒。 所在路次州縣嚴擬幡華。 僧道耆壽及音聲。 差一百事縣官就山同請。 文牒未出。 淨泉寧國兩寺小金師張大師聞請無住和上。 惶怖無計。 與諸律師平章擬作魔事。 先嚴尚書表。 弟子簫律師等囑太夫人。 奪金和上禪院為律院。 金和上禪堂為律堂。 小金師苟且安身簫律師等相知計會為律院。 立碑都昂撰文。 律師張知與王英耀及小金師張大師。 囑都昂郎中。 律師王英耀共王謇侍鄉同姓相認為兄弟。 囑崔僕射任夫人。 設齋食訖。 小金師即擎裴僕射所施袈裟。 呈示僕射及夫人。 小金師悲淚云。 此是承上信袈裟。 僕射言。 肝由來不知此事。 請無住禪師相公意重。 不關肝事。 都昂王謇曲黨恐奪。 律師院迴顧問諸律師。 此山僧無住禪師有何道業。 英耀律師等答。 若請此無住禪師。 無有知解。 若請此僧深不益。 緇流尚書問。 緣何不益。 緇流答。 有一人。 於汶州刻鏤功德。 平德袈裟一領。 計直二十千文。 被彼禪師奪。 工人衣不還云。

[Reverend Jin] ordered his disciples: "Bring me fresh, clean robes. I will bathe now." At the midnight hour, he solemnly underwent sitting transformation. When Minister Du, Vice Field Marshal and Palace Attendant, first arrived at Chengdu Prefecture, he had heard that Reverend Jin was inconceivable. Since the upādhyāya had passed away, there should have been a disciple to succeed him. He then went to Jingquan Temple and Hengshan Ningguo Temple to view the traces left by Reverend Jin during his lifetime. The minister inquired of the younger disciples: "Should there not be a disciple monk who succeeded him and received the robe and bowl?" The younger disciples replied: "No one succeeded him either. While the upādhyāya was alive, he had two kāṣāyas: one is at Hengshan Ningguo Temple, and one was left at Jingquan Temple for offerings." The minister did not believe them. He further questioned the vinaya masters: "I, Hongjian, have long heard that Reverend Jin was a kalyāṇamitra, and that from the predecessors downward, the robe and bowl were transmitted and entrusted from master to master. Now that Reverend Jin has passed away, where is the succeeding disciple?" The vinaya masters replied to the minister: "Chan Master Jin was a foreigner, a barbarian, and had no Buddhadharma. While alive, he did not speak much dharma, and his speech was imprecise. Though offerings and alms were abundant during his lifetime, he had only empty merit and virtue; his disciples also do not understand the Buddhadharma." With his discerning insight, the minister immediately knew these were all jealous words. He then returned to his residence and asked his trusted attendant clerical officers Ma Liang, Kang Ran, and others: "Do you know if there is a monk of lofty conduct, a bhadanta, in Jiannan?" Ma Liang replied: "In the courtyard, I often hear the regional military commanders say that in Mount Baiya, west of Can'ya Pass, there is Chan Master Wuzhu. He obtained Reverend Jin's robe and bowl and is the succeeding disciple. This Chan Master has deep and profound attainment in the practice, and has never left the mountain." Hearing this, the minister said to Ma Liang and the others: "I, Hongjian, have long heard that Reverend Jin was a great kalyāṇamitra. Yesterday I personally went to Hengshan Ningguo Temple and Jingquan Temple to ask Reverend Jin's personal disciples; they all said there was no succeeding disciple who obtained the robe and bowl. I also questioned the vinaya masters, and all of them spoke slander. Judging from these circumstances, Chan Master Wuzhu of Mount Baiya must indeed be a man of the Dao." Then, on the day of the grand court assembly, he asked the military commanders: "Do you know of any famous monks or bhadantas within this jurisdiction?" Deputy Military Commissioners Niu Wangxian, Li Lingying, Prince Guicheng, Dong Jiahui, Zhang Wen, Yin Qia, Zhang Yuguang, Zhang Zhen, Wei Luan, Qin Ti, and others advised the minister: "In Mount Baiya there is Chan Master Wuzhu. Reverend Jin's robe and bowl are in that Chan Master's possession; he is inconceivable." The minister asked Niu Wangxian and the others: "How do you know this?" They replied: "Wangxian was dispatched by Grand Master Gao to serve as Commissioner of the Shibei Camp. Because the bodhimanda was not far away, I frequently went to pay homage and thus know he is inconceivable." The minister asked again: "You just said the robe and bowl are there; who has verified the truth of this?" Qin Ti and Zhang Huang advised: "Ti and the others served as inspectors of the Left and Right Patrols. When Reverend Jin first entered extinction, the personal disciples of the two temples clamored and urged the Palace Attendant to speak to Grand Master Gao, saying: 'The exact truth of Reverend Jin's robe of verification is unknown, and they refuse to cremate it.' Grand Master Gao issued an order directing the Left and Right Patrol inspectors to investigate, establish the truth, and take custody of it. At that time, we only obtained two kāṣāyas, one for each of the two temples. We did not know where to search for the robe of verification. At that time, we did not know that in Mount Baiya, west of Can'ya Pass, there was Chan Master Wuzhu. Later, we were dispatched as company commanders leading cavalry to march into the western mountains to attack Danggo Castle. Before advancing the army, we camped at Shibei Camp, quartered near the bodhimanda. Ti and the military commanders brought offerings there. We saw that this Chan Master had the very same appearance as Reverend Jin. When Ti and the others first saw him, we thought he was Reverend Jin's transformation body. We made inquiries and tarried there, learning that Reverend Jin's robe and bowl had previously been sent by a messenger, but were concealed for two years and not delivered, and instead sold to a monk. On the night the monk obtained them, a spirit told him to return them to the original owner: 'If you do not return them, your life will surely be harmed.' The buyers told one another of this, and later, unable to sell them, they returned them to that Chan Master's place. When Ti and the others first investigated, we did not know where the kāṣāya was; now that it is here, we asked to pay homage to it, and he made no difficulty, immediately lifting the kāṣāya and bringing it out to display to the military commanders and brave officers. That is how we know it is there." Hearing this, the minister said: "Marvelous! Marvelous! Monks conceal the Buddhadharma worse than laypeople!" Deputy Military Commissioners Li Lingying, Zhang Wen, Niu Wangxian, Prince Guicheng, Xun Jiahui, Wei Luan, Qin Ti, and others then jointly signed a petition to invite the upādhyāya. The minister said to the military commanders: "Knowing of Chan Master Wuzhu, I myself intend to invite him." The minister dispatched Murong Ding of the Guanglu Office as a special envoy, immediately ordering official credentials to be issued. Along the route, prefectures and counties were to strictly prepare banners, flowers, monks, Daoists, elders, and music, and a county official with a hundred attendants was dispatched to go to the mountain to join in the invitation. Before the credentials were sent out, Little Master Jin and Great Master Zhang of the two temples, Jingquan and Ningguo, heard of the invitation to Reverend Wuzhu. Panicked and at a loss for measures, they conspired with the vinaya masters, plotting to commit demonic deeds. Previously, during Minister Yan's time, disciple Vinaya Master Xiao and others had entrusted the Grand Mistress to seize Reverend Jin's Chan cloister to make it a vinaya cloister, and Reverend Jin's Chan hall to make it a vinaya hall. Little Master Jin compromised to secure his safety, and Vinaya Master Xiao and others colluded together to make it a vinaya cloister, erecting a stele with text composed by Du Ang. Vinaya Master Zhang Zhiyu, Wang Yingyao, Little Master Jin, and Great Master Zhang urged Vice Director Du Ang; Vinaya Master Wang Yingyao and Attendant Wang Jian shared the same surname and recognized each other as brothers; they made requests through Grand Councillor Cui's wife, Lady Ren. After hosting a vegetarian feast, Little Master Jin lifted the kāṣāya donated by Grand Councillor Pei and presented it to the Grand Councillor and his lady. Little Master Jin wept and said: "This is the robe of verification handed down from above." The Grand Councillor said: "I have never known about this matter. The invitation to Chan Master Wuzhu is the minister's earnest wish; it has nothing to do with me." Du Ang and Wang Jian, out of factional prejudice, feared losing the vinaya cloister; turning back, they asked the vinaya masters: "What religious practice or attainment does this mountain monk Chan Master Wuzhu possess?" Vinaya Master Yingyao and others replied: "If you invite this Chan Master Wuzhu, he has no understanding whatsoever. Inviting this monk would be deeply disadvantageous." The monastics asked the Minister: "Why would it be disadvantageous?" The monastics replied: "There was a man who carved meritorious images in Wenzhou, and [made] a Pingde kāṣāya valued at twenty thousand cash. That Chan Master seized it and did not return the artisan's clothing!"