景德傳燈錄 4.46

4.46

Chan Master Juxuan of Mount Wutai was a native of Anlu. His surname was Cao. In his youth, he received training under Chan Master Lang of Mingfu Cloister. At first he lectured on the sūtras and treatises, and later participated in Chan assemblies, arriving at the Northern School. Master Xiu asked him, "What is it like where the white clouds disperse?" The Master said, "Not obscured." Xiu asked again, "What is it like after arriving here?" The Master said, "I directly see one branch bearing five leaves." Xiu silently approved him. Entering the room to attend and respond, he hardly ever erred. Soon he went to Hanling in Shangdang and dwelt there. Within a few years, the assembly exceeded a thousand. Later, he expounded the transformation on Mount Wutai for over twenty years and entered extinction at the age of eighty-one. On the third day of the ninth month of the fifteenth year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang, his whole body was enshrined in a stūpa.