景德傳燈錄 10.75

10.75

嘉禾藏廙禪師。衢州信安人也。姓程氏。唐元和中辭親往長沙嶽麓寺。禮靈智律師出家。長慶三年於武陵開元寺受戒。因聽律部語同學曰。教門繁廣宜扣總門。遂緣會龍牙山暢禪師。龍牙告之曰。蘊界不真。佛生非我。子之正本當復何名而從誰得。師一言領悟。迴柯山避會昌沙汰。後於龍興廣揚道化。乾符六年三月中長往。壽八十二。臘五十六。

Chan Master Cangyi of Jiahe was a native of Xin’an in Quzhou. His secular surname was Cheng. During the Yuanhe era of the Tang, he bid farewell to his parents and went to Yuelu Temple in Changsha, where he bowed to Vinaya Master Lingzhi and left home. In the third year of Changqing, he received the precepts at Kaiyuan Temple in Wuling. While listening to the Vinaya section, he said to his fellow students, “The gates of teaching are vast and manifold; we ought to knock at the overarching gate.” Thereupon, by karmic affinity, he met Chan Master Chang of Mount Longya. Longya told him, “The aggregates and realms are not real; the Buddha and sentient beings are not me. What should your original source be named, and from whom can it be obtained?” With a single word, the Master realized enlightenment. He returned to Mount Ke to avoid the Huichang suppression. Later, he widely propagated the transformation of the Way at Longxing. In the middle of the third month of the sixth year of Qianfu, he passed away for good, at the age of eighty-two, with fifty-six years of monastic seniority.