傳法正宗記 1.16

1.16

廣右藤之釋契嵩。字仲靈。少習儒業。遊方入吳。著書于錢塘之西湖。嘉祐間。以所業傳法正宗記定祖圖輔教編詣闕。以文贄見韓魏王歐陽文忠公王冀公。當時群巨公。極可許之。復表進仁宗皇帝御覽。至為道不為名為法不為身之句。嘉歎留禁中久之。有旨宣賜入大藏建炎間兵火散失。逮紹興庚辰秋。福州太平寺正言長老。因遊東山龍首㵎。得正宗記十二卷。仍以輔教編三冊增之。重新校勘。謂開元解空明禪師曰。吾家之嵩輔教。定慧操修。冬夏唯一衲。常坐不臥。日止一食。夜頂戴觀音像行道。誦菩薩號十萬聲以為常。宋之高僧。北斗以南一人而已。雖殫竹帛不可紀其道行。於是率諸禪同力。刊板于福州開元寺大藏流傳利益無窮。住壽山廣應禪寺嗣祖佛燈大師法珊跋。教忠崇報禪寺住持嗣祖比丘道印校正。

The monk Qisong of Teng Prefecture in Guangyou, styled Zhongling, studied Confucian learning in his youth. Traveling through various regions, he entered Wu, and wrote books by the West Lake of Qiantang. During the Jiayou era, taking his completed works—the Chuanfa zhengzong ji, the Dingzu tu, and the Fujiao bian—he went to the imperial court, and presented his writings as introductory gifts to the Prince of Wei Han [Qi], Duke Ouyang Wenzhong [Xiu], and Duke Wang Jiguo. All the eminent dignitaries of that time fully approved of them. He then memorialized and presented them for Emperor Renzong's imperial inspection. Coming upon the phrase "for the sake of the Dao, not for fame; for the sake of the Dharma, not for oneself," the Emperor praised and sighed with admiration, retaining them in the forbidden palace for a long time. An imperial edict was issued declaring that they be included in the Tripiṭaka. During the Jianyan era, they were scattered and lost in the flames of war. In the autumn of the gengchen year of the Shaoxing era, Elder Zhengyan of Taiping Temple in Fuzhou, while wandering by the Longshou Torrent on Mount Dong, obtained the twelve fascicles of the Zhengzong ji, supplemented them with the three volumes of the Fujiao bian, and re-collated them. He said to Chan Master Jiekong Ming of Kaiyuan: "Our Qisong Fujiao practiced meditation and wisdom, wearing only a single patched robe in winter and summer, constantly sitting without lying down, eating only one meal a day, and walking the Dao at night with an image of Guanyin on his head, chanting the Bodhisattva's name a hundred thousand times as a regular practice. Among the eminent monks of the Song, he was the only one south of the Big Dipper! Even if all the bamboo and silk were exhausted, one could not record his Dao and conduct." Thereupon, leading all the Chan monks to unite their efforts, he carved the printing blocks at Kaiyuan Temple in Fuzhou for inclusion in the Tripiṭaka, bringing endless benefits. Colophon by the Dharma-transmitting patriarchal successor Master Fodeng Fashan, abbot of Guangying Chan Temple on Mount Shoushan; collated by the Dharma-transmitting patriarchal successor monk Daoyin, abbot of Chongbao Chan Temple of Jiaozhong.