景德傳燈錄 26.80

26.80

杭州開化寺傳法大師行明。本州人也。姓于氏。少投明州雪竇山智覺禪師披剃。及智覺遷住永明大道場。有徒二千。王臣欽仰法化彌盛。師自天台受記迴永明。翼贊本師。海眾傾仰。開寶八年智覺歸寂。師遂住能仁寺。忠懿王又建大和寺（尋改名六和寺。後太宗皇帝賜號開化）延請住持二處。皆聚徒說法。僧問。如何是開化門中流出方便。師曰。日日潮音兩度聞。問如何是無盡燈。師曰。謝闍梨照燭。太宗皇帝賜紫衣師號。咸平四年四月六日示滅。

Great Master of Dharma Transmission Xingming of Kaihua Temple in Hangzhou was a native of the same prefecture. His surname was Yu. In his youth, he went to Chan Master Zhijue on Mount Xuedou in Mingzhou to have his head shaved. When Zhijue moved to dwell at the Great Bodhimaṇḍa of Yongming, he had two thousand disciples; kings and ministers looked up to him, and the Dharma teaching flourished even more. The master returned to Yongming after receiving prediction from Tiantai, assisting his root master, and the oceanic assembly looked up to him with devotion. In the eighth year of the Kaibao era, Zhijue returned to silence, and the master then dwelled at Reneng Temple. King Zhongyi also built Dahe Temple (soon renamed Liuhe Temple; later Emperor Taizong bestowed the title Kaihua), inviting him to dwell as abbot; at both places he gathered disciples and preached the Dharma. A monk asked, "What is the skillful means flowing forth from the gate of Kaihua?" The master said, "Every day the sound of the tide is heard twice." A monk asked, "What is the inexhaustible lamp?" The master said, "I thank the ācārya for illuminating it." Emperor Taizong bestowed a purple robe and a master title. On the sixth day of the fourth month of the fourth year of the Xianping era, he manifested extinction.