[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [景德傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076) › 5.105 # 景德傳燈錄 5.105 景德傳燈錄 5.105 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.5.105) 西京荷澤神會禪師者襄陽人也。姓高氏。年十四為沙彌謁六祖。祖曰。知識遠來大艱辛將本來否。若有本則合識主。試說看。師曰。以無住為本。見即是主。祖曰。遮沙彌爭合取次語。便以杖打。師於杖下思惟曰。大善知識歷劫難逢。今既得遇。豈惜身命。自此給侍。他日祖告眾曰。吾有一物無頭無尾無名無字無背無面。諸人還識否。師乃出曰。是諸佛之本原。神會之佛性。祖曰。向汝道無名無字。汝便喚本原佛性。師禮拜而退。師尋往西京受戒。唐景龍中却歸曹谿。祖滅後二十年間。曹谿頓旨沈廢於荊吳。嵩嶽漸門盛行於秦洛。乃入京。天寶四年方定兩宗（南能頓宗北秀漸教）乃著顯宗記盛行于世。一日鄉信至報二親亡。師入堂白槌曰。父母俱喪。請大眾念摩訶般若。眾纔集師便打槌曰。勞煩大眾。師於上元元年五月十三日中夜奄然而化。俗壽七十五。二年建塔於洛京龍門。勅於塔所置寶應寺。大歷五年賜號真宗般若傳法之堂。七年又賜般若大師之塔。 > Chan Master Shenhui of Heze in the Western Capital was a native of Xiangyang. His surname was Gao. At the age of fourteen, as a śrāmaṇera, he visited the Sixth Patriarch. The Patriarch said, 'Kalyāṇamitra, coming from afar with great hardship, did you bring the fundamental? If you have the fundamental, you should recognize the master. Try telling me.' The Master said, 'Taking non-abiding as the fundamental, seeing is the master.' The Patriarch said, 'How can this śrāmaṇera speak so carelessly?' and struck him with his staff. Under the staff, the Master contemplated: 'A great kalyāṇamitra is difficult to encounter in kalpas upon kalpas; now that I have met him, how could I begrudge body and life?' From then on he served him. Another day, the Patriarch addressed the assembly, saying: 'I have a thing: it has no head and no tail, no name and no letter, no back and no face. Do you all recognize it?' The Master came forward and said, 'It is the source of all Buddhas, the Buddha-nature of Shenhui.' The Patriarch said, 'I told you it has no name and no letter, and you immediately call it the source and Buddha-nature.' The Master bowed and withdrew. The Master soon went to the Western Capital to receive the full precepts. During the Jinglong era of the Tang, he returned to Caoxi. In the twenty years after the Patriarch's decease, Caoxi's sudden tenet fell into decline and neglect in Jing and Wu, while Songyue's gradual gate flourished in Qin and Luo. He then entered the capital. Only in the fourth year of the Tianbao era were the two schools settled (the Southern Neng's sudden school and Northern Xiu's gradual teaching). He then composed the Record of Revealing the School, which circulated widely in the world. One day, a letter from his hometown arrived reporting that both of his parents had died. The Master entered the hall, struck the gavel, and said, 'Both parents have passed away. I invite the great assembly to chant the Mahāprajñā.' As soon as the assembly gathered, the Master struck the gavel and said, 'I have troubled the great assembly.' On the thirteenth day of the fifth month in the first year of the Shangyuan era, in the middle of the night, the Master quietly passed away. His worldly age was seventy-five. In the second year, a stupa was erected at Longmen in the capital Luoyang. By imperial order, the Bao'ying Temple was established at the site of the stupa. In the fifth year of the Dali era, the hall was granted the name 'Hall of the True School Prajñā Transmission of Dharma'. In the seventh year, the stupa was also granted the name 'Stupa of Master Prajñā'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.5.104) - [Next: 5.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.5.106) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076~en-mt.5.105) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.5.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.5.105) · Pramāṇa