廬山記 3.10

3.10

雷次宗字仲倫。豫章南昌人。博學尤明詩禮。不就徵辟。入廬山立館東林僧房之東。與遠公同社。宋文帝元嘉十五年徵。至都立學鷄籠山。置生員百餘人。久之復還廬山。公卿祖道後再徵。築室鍾山西巖下。謂之招隱館。猶秉操。不入公門。每自華林園東林。入延賢堂。為太子諸王。講喪服經。元嘉二十五年戊子終。春秋六十三。

Lei Cizong, styled Zhonglun, was a man of Nanchang in Yuzhang. Widely learned, he was especially clear on the Book of Songs and the Book of Rites. He did not take up summons and appointments, but entered Lushan and built a lodge to the east of the monks' quarters at Donglin, joining the society with Master Yuan. In the fifteenth year of Yuanjia of Emperor Wen of Song, he was summoned; upon reaching the capital, he established an academy at Mount Jilong and instituted more than a hundred students. After a long while, he returned to Lushan. The dukes and ministers gave him a farewell banquet. Later he was summoned again and built a chamber beneath the western cliff of Mount Zhong, calling it the Lodge for Summoning the Recluse (Zhaoyin Guan). Still maintaining his moral restraint, he did not enter official gates. Every day, going from Donglin in Hualin Garden into the Hall of Extending Worthies, he lectured on the Book of Mourning Attire for the Crown Prince and the various princes. He died in the twenty-fifth year of Yuanjia, the year wuzi, at the age of sixty-three.