景德傳燈錄 16.6

16.6

天台瑞龍院慧恭禪師福州人也姓羅氏。家世為儒。年十七舉進士隨計京。師因遊終南山奉日寺。覩祖師遺像。遂求出家。二十二受戒。遊方謁德山鑒禪師鑒問曰。會麼。恭曰。作麼。鑒曰。請相見。恭曰。識麼。鑒大笑遂入室焉。暨鑒順世。與門人之天台瑞龍院大開法席。唐天復三年癸亥十二月二日午時命眾聲鍾。顧左右曰去。言訖跏趺而化。壽八十四。臘六十二。門人建塔。

Chan Master Huigong of Ruilong Cloister in Tiantai was a native of Fuzhou surnamed Luo. His family had been literati for generations. At age seventeen, he was recommended as a jinshi and went with the tributary cohort to the capital. While visiting Fengri Temple on Mount Zhongnan, the master saw an image left behind of an ancestral master, whereupon he sought to leave home. At twenty-two he received the precepts. Travelling about, he visited Chan Master [Xuan]jian of Deshan. Deshan asked, "Do you understand?" Gong said, "What?" Deshan said, "Please let us see each other." Gong said, "Do you recognize [me]?" Deshan laughed loudly, and [Huigong] then entered his room. After Deshan's passing, [Huigong] went with his disciples to Ruilong Cloister in Tiantai and extensively opened the Dharma seat. In the third year of the Tianfu reign of the Tang (a guihai year, 903 CE), on the second day of the twelfth month at the hour of the horse, he ordered the assembly to sound the bell. He looked left and right and said, "I am going." Having spoken, he sat cross-legged and passed away. His age was eighty-four, his monastic age sixty-two. His disciples erected a pagoda.