景德傳燈錄 21.65

21.65

金陵報恩院清護禪師福州長樂人也。姓陳氏。六歲辭親禮鼓山披削。十五納戒。於國師言下發明真趣。暨國師圓寂。乃之建州白雲。閩帥王氏秦賜紫號崇因大師。晉天福八年金陵興師入建城時。統軍查文徽至院。師出延接。查問曰。此中相見時如何。師曰。惱亂將軍。查後請師歸金陵。國主命居長慶院攝眾。周顯德初退歸建州卓庵。時節度使陳誨創顯親報恩禪苑堅請住持。開堂日僧問。諸佛出世天華亂墜。未審和尚出世有何祥瑞。師曰。昨日新雷發。今朝細雨飛。問如何是諸佛玄旨。師曰。草鞋木履。開寶三年五月江南後主再請入住報恩淨德二道場。來往說法。改號妙行禪師。當年十一月示疾預辭國主。二十日平旦聲鍾召大眾囑付訖儼然坐亡。壽五十有五。臘四十。國主厚禮茶毘。收舍利三百餘粒并靈骨。歸葬于建州鷄足山臥雲院建塔。師風神清灑操行孤標。二十年不服綿絹唯衣紙布。辭藻札翰並皆冠眾。五處語要偈頌別行于世。

Chan Master Qinghu of Bao'en Cloister in Jinling was a native of Changle in Fuzhou. His lay surname was Chen. At six years of age, he took leave of his parents to pay homage at Mount Gu, where he was tonsured. At fifteen, he received the precepts. Under the National Master's words, he clearly comprehended the true purport. When the National Master entered parinirvāṇa, he proceeded to Baiyun in Jianzhou. The Military Commissioner of Min, of the Wang clan, petitioned to bestow upon him the purple robe and the title Great Master Chongyin. In the eighth year of the Tianfu era of the Jin dynasty, when the army of Jinling was mobilized to enter the city of Jian, General Zha Wenhui arrived at the cloister. The Master came out to receive him. Zha asked, "How is it when we meet here?" The Master said, "Causing trouble for the general." Later, Zha invited the Master to return to Jinling. The ruler of the state ordered him to reside at Changqing Cloister to lead the assembly. In the early Xiande era of the Zhou dynasty, he retired to Jianzhou and built a hermitage. At that time, the Military Commissioner Chen Hui founded the Xianqin Bao'en Chan Monastery and earnestly invited him to become abbot. On the day he opened the hall, a monk asked, "When the Buddhas appear in the world, heavenly flowers fall in profusion. I wonder what auspicious omens there are when the Upādhyāya appears in the world?" The Master said, "Yesterday fresh thunder broke out; this morning fine rain flies." The monk asked, "What is the profound purport of all Buddhas?" The Master said, "Straw sandals and wooden clogs." In the fifth month of the third year of the Kaibao era, the Later Ruler of Jiangnan again invited him to reside in the two places of practice, Bao'en and Jingde. He came and went to preach the Dharma, and his title was changed to Chan Master Miaoxing. In the eleventh month of that year, showing signs of illness, he took advance leave of the ruler of the state. At dawn on the twentieth day, the bell was struck to assemble the great assembly; after giving his final instructions, he sat upright and passed away. His age was fifty-five, his monastic age forty. The ruler of the state provided lavish funeral rites and cremation. Over three hundred grains of śarīra and his sacred relics were gathered and returned to Mount Jizu in Jianzhou for burial at Woyun Cloister, where a stupa was erected. The Master's bearing was pure and untrammeled, his conduct solitary and lofty. For twenty years he did not wear silk or satin, dressing only in paper and cloth. His literary elegance and calligraphy surpassed all others. The essential words and verse-hymns from five places circulate separately in the world.