景德傳燈錄 24.24

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漳州報劬院玄應定慧禪師泉州晉江縣人也。姓吳氏。幼出家於本州開元寺九佛院。稟具探律乘。閱大藏終秩。乃之福州謁白龍希和尚印可心地。却歸本州清豁。會清豁長老罷唱保福庵。于貴湖一見。以同道相契。豁命檀信於庵之西青陽山創室。請師宴處二十餘載。開寶三年屬泉州帥陳洪進仲子文顥任漳州刺史於水南創大禪苑曰報劬。屢請師住持。固辭不往。師之兄仁濟為軍校。文顥因遣仁濟入山述意勤懇。師不得已出山。時參學四集。僅千五百人隨從入院大啟法筵。僧問。如何是第一義。師曰。如何是第一義。曰學人請益。師何以倒問學人。師曰。汝適來請益什麼。曰第一義。師曰。汝謂之倒問耶。問如何是古佛道場。師曰。今夏堂中千五百僧。陳帥以師之道德聞于太祖皇帝。賜紫衣師號。開寶八年將順世。先七日遺書辭陳守。仍示一偈曰。

Chan Master Dinghui Xuanying of Baoqu Cloister in Zhangzhou was a native of Jinjiang County in Quanzhou. His surname was Wu. In his youth he left home at Jiufosi Cloister of Kaiyuan Temple in his home prefecture. Receiving full ordination, he explored the Vinaya vehicle and read through the entire canon of scriptures. Thereupon he went to Fuzhou to call upon Upādhyāya Xi of Bailong, who verified and sealed his mind-ground. He then returned to his home prefecture. Qinghuo met with him: Elder Qinghuo had retired from preaching at Baofu Hermitage, and when they met at Guihu, they accorded with each other as companions of the Way. Qinghuo directed donors and believers to construct a room on Mount Qingyang to the west of the hermitage, inviting the Master to reside at ease there for more than twenty years. In the third year of Kaibao, the military commissioner of Quanzhou, Chen Hongjin's second son Wenhao, served as the prefectural governor of Zhangzhou and established a great Chan monastery south of the river named Baoqu. He repeatedly invited the Master to be the abbot, but the Master firmly declined and would not go. The Master's elder brother Renji was a military officer; Wenhao therefore sent Renji into the mountains to convey his intentions with great earnestness. The Master had no choice but to come out of the mountains. At that time, students gathered from the four directions; nearly one thousand five hundred people followed him into the cloister, where he opened wide the Dharma banquet. A monk asked, "What is the primary meaning?" The Master said, "What is the primary meaning?" [The monk] said, "The student asks for instruction; why does the Master turn around and ask the student?" The Master said, "What did you ask for instruction on just now?" [The monk] said, "The primary meaning." The Master said, "Do you call that turning around and asking?" [The monk] asked, "What is the bodhimaṇḍa of an ancient Buddha?" The Master said, "This summer there are one thousand five hundred monks in the hall." Commissioner Chen reported the Master's virtue and Way to Emperor Taizu, who bestowed a purple robe and a master's title. In the eighth year of Kaibao, as he was about to pass away, seven days in advance he sent a farewell letter to Prefect Chen and further demonstrated with a gāthā, saying: