傳法正宗記 6.16

6.16

復謂忍曰。我昔武德中甞遊廬𭚖。昇其絕頂。見此破頭山。其上有紫雲如蓋。下發白氣。橫分六道。汝以為何瑞。忍曰。是必和尚已後橫出一枝佛法之先兆也。尊者曰。善哉汝能知之。已而沐浴宴坐而化。世壽七十有二。是時實永徽二年辛亥九月四日也。葬後三載其塔戶一日忽然自開。而尊者真體儼然若生。大曆中。代宗賜諡曰大毉禪師。塔曰慈雲。

He further said to Ren: “Formerly, during the Wude era, I once traveled to Mount Lu. Ascending its highest peak, I saw this Mount Potou: above it were purple clouds like a canopy, and below it arose white vapor, dividing horizontally into six branches. What kind of auspicious omen do you consider this to be?” Ren said: “This must surely be an omen that after the upādhyāya, a branch of the Buddha-Dharma will branch out horizontally.” The Venerable One said: “Excellent! You are able to understand it.” Shortly afterward, he bathed, sat in meditation, and passed away. His worldly age was seventy-two. This was on the fourth day of the ninth month in the xinhai year, the second year of the Yonghui era [651 CE]. Three years after his burial, the door of his stūpa suddenly opened of itself one day, and the Venerable One’s true body appeared majestic as though alive. During the Dali era, Emperor Daizong bestowed the posthumous title Chan Master Dayi, and the stūpa was named Ciyun.