景德傳燈錄 3.25

3.25

遂以學徒委之。一日告眾曰。吾武德中遊廬山。登絕頂望破頭山。見紫雲如蓋下有白氣橫分六道。汝等會否。眾皆默然。忍曰。莫是和尚他後橫出一枝佛法否。師曰善。後貞觀癸卯歲。太宗嚮師道味欲瞻風彩。詔赴京師。上表遜謝前後三返。竟以疾辭。第四度命使曰。如果不起即取首來。使至山諭旨。師乃引頸就刃神色儼然。使異之迴以狀聞。帝彌加歎慕。就賜珍繒以遂其志。迄高宗永徽辛亥歲閏九月四日。忽垂誡門人曰。一切諸法悉皆解脫。汝等各自護念流化未來。言訖安坐而逝壽七十有二。塔于本山。明年四月八日塔戶無故自開。儀相如生。爾後門人不敢復閉。代宗諡大醫禪師慈雲之塔。自圓寂至皇宋景德元年甲辰。凡三百五十六載（當云三百五十四載）。

He thereupon entrusted the disciples to him. One day he announced to the assembly: "During the Wude era, I traveled to Mount Lu. Climbing to the highest peak and gazing toward Potou Mountain, I saw purple clouds like a canopy, beneath which white vapors branched horizontally into six paths. Do you understand?" The assembly remained silent. Hongren said, "Could it be that later on the upādhyāya will branch off one shoot of the Buddha-Dharma?" The Master said, "Good." Later, in the guimao year of the Zhenguan era, Emperor Taizong, yearning for the flavor of the Master's Path and wishing to behold his presence, summoned him to the capital. The Master submitted a memorial declining with thanks; three times it went back and forth, and he ultimately declined on account of illness. On the fourth occasion, the emperor ordered the envoy: "If he really will not rise, bring his head." The envoy reached the mountain and proclaimed the imperial edict. The Master then stretched out his neck to meet the blade, his demeanor dignified and composed. Marveling at this, the envoy returned and reported it in a memorial. The Emperor admired and praised him even more, and bestowed precious silks upon him so that he could fulfill his aspiration. Finally, on the fourth day of the intercalary ninth month in the xinhai year, the second year of the Yonghui era of Emperor Gaozong, he suddenly gave an admonition to his disciples, saying, "All phenomena are completely liberated. Each of you must safeguard your mindfulness and let it flow and transform into the future." Having spoken, he sat peacefully and passed away at the age of seventy-two. A stūpa was erected on this mountain. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the following year, the door of the stūpa opened of itself without cause, and his appearance was as if alive. Thereafter, the disciples did not dare close it again. Emperor Daizong conferred the posthumous title "Chan Master Dayi" and named his stūpa "Ciyun." From his complete extinction to the jiache year, the first year of the Jingde era of the august Song, three hundred and fifty-six years have elapsed (it should say three hundred and fifty-four years).