續傳燈錄 36.14

36.14

溫州江心一山禪師諱了万。族臨川金氏。貌瘠而弱。年十五業程文有聲。然素志出家莫奪。去從金溪常樂院思仁者祝髮。俄有靈芝產戶樞。占者曰。吉徵也。及游方謁偃溪聞公荊叟珏公簡翁敬公皆相語合。東叟領南屏擇師掌記。師偶經神祠。見紙灰隨風旋起者。脫然忘所證。亟以白東叟。東叟詰之終無疑滯。遂蒙印可。後遊天台及境眾請開法寒岩。竟嗣東叟。踰三年遷仙居紫籜。歷十載遷疎山。當道議不合即撾退。未幾江淮總統會諸山于靈隱直指堂。議以開先迎居之。師蒞事叢林鼎新。又十年升住江心。少不適意輒棄去。寺眾數百懇留。隨至憑公嶺。不從。各泣別散去。師恬然如脫去桎梏焉。會廬山月㵎明公遣舟迎歸東溪。明公示寂。開先之眾復以請。師力却之。眾懇迫至再四。願不以寺事累師。惟乞訓徒耳。皇慶元年十一月二十六日遘疾危坐不近藥。閱七日命具浴更衣出據室几書訣眾語坐逝。闍維收五色舍利如菽不可計。雙目睛不燼。鎔以烈焰益晶熒。齒牙頂骨錚有聲。時改作豫章烏遮塔。江西行省丞相斡赤命以舊藏釋尊舍利奉於中。而遣使分一山之目睛舍利。貯之銀匣陪葬焉餘骼舍利又以葬東溪。

Chan Master Yishan Liaowan of Jiangxin in Wenzhou was surnamed Jin and came from Linchuan. His appearance was emaciated and frail. At age fifteen, his examination essays gained renown, yet his longstanding aspiration to renounce worldly life could not be shaken. He went to follow Siren at Changle Cloister in Jinxi to shave his head. Soon, a spiritual fungus sprouted on the door pivot; a diviner said, 'This is an auspicious sign.' When he went on itinerant pilgrimage, he called upon Yanxi Wen, Jingsou Jue, and Jian'weng Jing; his conversations with all of them were in accord. When Dongsou took charge of Nanping, he chose the Master as recorder. The Master happened to pass by a spirit shrine and saw paper ashes swirling up with the wind; suddenly, he forgot what he had realized. He hurried to inform Dongsou. Dongsou questioned him closely, and in the end there was no doubt or hesitation. He thereupon received the seal of approval. Later, he traveled to Tiantai, and upon reaching the border, the community requested him to open the Dharma hall at Hanyan; ultimately, he became the Dharma heir of Dongsou. After three years, he moved to Zituo in Xianju. After ten years, he moved to Shushan. When his views did not accord with the local officials, he beat the drum to retire. Before long, the Commander of Jianghuai convened the various mountains at the Zhizhi Hall of Lingyin, deliberating to welcome him to reside at Kaixian. When the Master took charge, the monastic community was completely renewed. Another ten years later, he was promoted to reside at Jiangxin. At the slightest dissatisfaction, he would abandon his post and leave. Several hundred members of the monastery earnestly begged him to stay, following him all the way to Mount Pinggong. He did not yield; they wept, parted, and dispersed. The Master was tranquil, as though having slipped off shackles. It happened that Yuejian Ming of Mount Lu sent a boat to welcome him back to Dongxi. When Ming passed away into quiescence, the assembly of Kaixian again came to invite him. The Master firmly declined. The assembly earnestly pressed him four times, saying they wished not to burden the Master with monastery affairs, but only begged him to instruct the disciples. On the twenty-sixth day of the eleventh month in the first year of Huangqing [1312], he fell ill, sat upright, and would not touch medicine. After seven days, he ordered a bath, changed his clothes, sat at the table in his room, wrote parting words to the assembly, and passed away while sitting. During the cremation, five-colored śarīra like beans were collected beyond count. Both his pupils were not consumed by the fire; melted in the fierce flames, they became even more crystalline and bright. His teeth and cranial bone clanged with a ringing sound. At that time, the Wuzhe Stūpa of Yuzhang was being renovated; Woqi, Chancellor of the Jiangxi Branch Secretariat, ordered that the previously enshrined śarīra of Śākyamuni Buddha be placed in its center, and dispatched an envoy to obtain a portion of Yishan's eye-pupil śarīra, storing them in a silver box to be entombed alongside. His remaining bones and śarīra were buried at Dongxi.