景德傳燈錄 4.50

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Chan Master Quanzhi of Mount Duliang in Huainan was a native of Guangzhou. His secular surname was Rui. At first, he built a hermitage and dwelt there. The prefect, Wei Wenqing, ordered him to open the Dharma and gather disciples at Changshou Temple in his home prefecture. Wenqing asked, 'What will become of the prosperity and decline of the Buddha-Dharma in the future?' The Master said, 'That which is real has no past and no present, nor does it have any tracks. Conditioned phenomena shift and flow through the four characteristics. The Dharma is bound to suffer obstruction and adversity, as your Lordship shall see.' The Master ended his life at the age of ninety-three. On the seventh day of the ninth month in the fourth year of the Huichang reign of the Tang, a jiazi year, he was placed in a stupa.