鐔津文集 19.15

19.15

覺城否復隍。慧日書有食。苟無明哲士。曷以救顛仄。緬惟東山師。降靈自天德。申甫寧加諸。奮身若葡蔔。吾法傾不綱。蒼黃莫之測。詵詵排佛徒。岩岩侍君側。適操權衡者。兼領辭翰職。率意務品藻。庶形在埏埴。唐書預之修。韓語例增飾。竊自比丘軻。拒我過楊墨。惜彼述至言。曾之通皇極。廢道專以人。訐惡肆其力。坑焚必有待。伐削豈容刻。愚俗初易欺。聖主終難惑。當時禪講輩。動類百千億。獨誰敢枝梧。縮手俟徽纆。唯師奮然作。感憤形諸色。一言塗腦肝。萬卷羅胸臆。人爵猶唾遺。冥鴻詎籠得。蠢蠢嗟東人。遲遲別南國。歷楚仍騁吳。百城慕知識。義龍雲之天。禪虎角而翼。誅茆靈峯西。殺簡仙源北。著書傚龍猛。護法掌司直。正宗序昭穆。原教辯離即（謂儒釋二教雖殊皆相資而化物也）筆峯迴崷崒。詞海彌湢㳁。紛葩若輝散。宏麗尚典實。匠媧補穹旻。効禹導溝洫。動或幾百卷。經世為模則。斯文千古雄。斯義萬夫特。據理從所征。處戰無弗克。吾皇遇唐虞。吾相遭禹稷。抱書乃西獻。乘時闢凶塞。喜覽明光殿。撫念加歎息。賞其繫表才。欝為天下式。謂嘗獵英雋。忽此遺彀弋。小避三公位。高憑四依軾。慧日昏復明。禪經亂還緎。智林久宜茂。福田廣須植。大信過豚魚。至仁周動植。良可班諸藏。尋即遵所勅（略去五韻）飛章類席卷。橫議同鏡拭。舂喉那補爨。樹口拑拱默。始知猛陵翁（即師里名。彼多獮猛陵男子故）原筮無遺慝。金湯義存存。涇渭情湜湜（略去二韻）既而謂東歸。湖山夢還憶。列戶翠可染。當窓秀堪織。風尚清散為。僧年白駒逼。孰貴秉燭遊。鼓缶欹吳日。林遠爭追隨。宗雷苦凄惻。禪誦心稍隙。騷雅興仍亟。道行愈峻卓。德聲轉輝赩（略去七韻）宴坐君無何。遺偈見敦飾。大梅鼯鼠聲。匪我相囚福（師臨終偈云。不似大梅老。貪隨鼯鼠聲。云）奄然遂長往。休徵難具仂。明發鷲峯下。闍維火初熄。五相堅不化。鮮柔光燿翌。燦若金出䤵。瑩如玉分玏。式旌無妄犯。奉法剛而㥶。靈山眾咸覩。望林加渴醷。剋奇冠前籍。景仰動殊域。王公競嗟駭。士庶增悃愊（略去二韻）共收鶴林骨。合葬鷲山肋（略去三韻）㵎猿徒自號。書魚蠹誰蝕。僧史半十料。工歌全九罭（略去六韻）致我來吳楚。慕師自岐嶷。獲記楞伽遊。誦味踰鱠職（師有遊吾湟川燕嘉亭。及楞伽山寺記也）。哲人既云殂。至道亦將踣。已乎三十年。臨弔徒深剋。妙峯高為塔。梵天廣成國（國或作異）萬物備蒸嘗。五雲爭輔翊。乾坤或幾息。海山有時泐。師其道與名。勃然長觺觺。

The city of enlightenment fell into decline and ruins; / The sun of wisdom was eclipsed at noon. / If not for an enlightened and wise master, / How could the tilted and fallen be rescued? / Thinking back upon the Master of Dongshan, / A spiritual descent born of heavenly virtue: / Did Shen and Fu surpass him? / He exerted himself, as if crawling on hands and knees. / Our Dharma leaned precariously without order; / In the sudden turmoil, none could gauge the depths. / Swarming droves rejected the Buddhist followers; / Towering ministers stood beside the ruler. / Those who then wielded the scales of power / Concurrently directed the official brush and letters. / Following their whims, they took to passing judgments, / Hoping to mold all forms into their own clay. / Participating in the compilation of the Tang history, / They universally magnified and embellished Han [Yu]’s words. / Secretly likening himself to Master Meng Ke, / He rejected us even more fiercely than Yang and Mo. / Pity that though they recorded supreme words, / They failed to comprehend the Supreme Ultimate! / Abolishing the Way merely because of persons, / They gave free rein to attacking faults with all their might. / The pits and burnings were bound to return; / How could their pruning and cleaving brook even a moment’s delay? / The ignorant masses at first were easily deceived, / But the sagely ruler in the end was hard to delude. / At that time, among the ranks of Chan and doctrinal exegetes, / They numbered hundreds of thousands and tens of millions; / Yet who alone dared to resist? / They shrank their hands back, awaiting the binding cords! / Only the Master arose with heroic spirit, / Indignation and anguish showing upon his countenance. / With a single word he would smear his brains and liver; / Ten thousand scrolls were arrayed in his breast. / Human nobility he cast aside like spit; / How could the wild swan of the dark void be caged? / Sighing over the foolish people of the East, / Slowly he took leave of the Southern lands. / Passing through Chu and galloping on to Wu, / Over a hundred cities he sought out good spiritual friends. / A dragon of doctrine ascending into the sky of clouds; / A tiger of Chan endowed with horns and wings. / He cut the thatch to the west of Lingfeng; / He inscribed slips of bamboo to the north of Xianyuan. / Writing treatises, he modeled himself on Nāgārjuna; / Defending the Dharma, he held the office of the Director of Rectitude. / In the True Lineage (*Zhengzong [ji]*), he ordered the generations; / In Clarifying the Teachings (*Yuanjiao*), he discerned parting and uniting / (referring to how Confucianism and Buddhism, though different, both support one another to transform beings). / The peaks of his brush soared high and steep; / The sea of his words surged vast and deep. / Blossoming resplendently as scattering brilliance, / Grand and magnificent, yet esteeming classical reality. / Like the artisan Nüwa, he mended the vault of heaven; / Emulating Yu, he dredged the channels and ditches. / Often filling several hundred fascicles, / Setting the standard for ordering the world. / This writing is heroic for a thousand ages; / This doctrine is peerless among ten thousand men. / Relying on principle wherever he campaigned, / Wherever he fought, he never failed to conquer! / Our Emperor met with Tang and Yu; / Our Minister encountered Yu and Ji. / Embracing his books, he went west to present them; / Seizing the moment, he opened up what was blocked and dire. / Delighted, they were perused in the Hall of Bright Light; / With tender remembrance, sigh upon sigh was uttered. / Praising his transcendent talent, / Which flourished as a model for the entire realm. / It was said that having long hunted the outstanding and preeminent, / Suddenly here was one who had slipped the arrows of the bow! / Yielding slightly to the rank of the Three Excellencies, / He leaned aloft upon the chariot of the Four Reliances. / The sun of wisdom, once obscured, shone bright again; / The thread of the Chan scriptures, once entangled, was rewoven. / The forest of wisdom had long flourished; / The field of merit required broad planting. / Great trustworthiness exceeding even pigs and fish; / Supreme benevolence encompassing flora and fauna. / They could well be promulgated in the Tripiṭaka, / And soon was obeyed what was decreed. / (Five rhymes omitted here.) / Flying memorials swept forth like rolling mats; / Wayward disputations were wiped clean like mirrors. / How could a pestle in the throat supply fuel for cooking? / Stems of mouths were shut fast in silence. / Only then was it known that the Old Man of Mengling / (the name of the Master’s hometown; because there were many hunters and Mengling men there) / In his divination had left behind no fault. / The righteousness of golden ramparts and boiling moats ever endured; / The clarity of the Jing and Wei rivers remained pure. / (Two rhymes omitted here.) / Soon he spoke of returning to the east; / In dreams he recalled the lakes and mountains. / Across the doorways, the verdure could dye [cloth]; / Facing the windows, the elegance could be woven. / His demeanor was purely untrammeled; / His monastic years pressed on like a white colt. / Who values roving while holding a candle? / Striking an earthen jar, leaning toward the sun of Wu. / Huiyuan’s forest vied to follow after him; / Zong Bing and Lei Cizong were bitterly sorrowful. / In intervals between Chan and recitation, / Poetic inspiration still pressed swiftly. / His religious practice grew ever more lofty and eminent; / The sound of his virtue shone with redoubled brilliance. / (Seven rhymes omitted here.) / Sitting in serenity, you entered into nothingness; / The verse left behind revealed solemn dignity: / 'The sound of Damei’s flying squirrel / Was not my blessing of imprisoning marks.' / (The Master’s death verse said: 'Not like old Damei / Greedily following the sound of the flying squirrel.') / Suddenly he departed for the long journey; / Auspicious portents are hard to record in full. / At dawn beneath the Vulture Peak, / The fire of the jhāpita had just died down: / The five aspects remained firm and unconsumed, / Soft and fresh, shining with radiant light! / Brilliant as gold emerging from the crucible, / Gleaming as jade distinct from inferior stone. / Signifying that he had never committed transgressions, / Upholding the Dharma, resolute and firm. / The assembly of Vulture Peak all beheld it; / Gazing at the forest, their thirst and longing deepened. / Surpassing previous records in exceptional wonder, / Admiration stirred distant realms. / Princes and dukes vied in marvel and awe; / Scholars and commoners deepened their sincerity. / (Two rhymes omitted here.) / Together they gathered the bones of the Crane Forest, / Jointly burying them in the flank of Vulture Peak. / (Three rhymes omitted here.) / The ravine apes cried in vain; / Whom would the bookworms consume? / The monastic histories were halved by fifteen measures; / The masterly songs fulfilled all nine nets. / (Six rhymes omitted here.) / This brought me from Wu and Chu, / Admiring the Master since my childhood days. / Having obtained the record of the excursion to Laṅkā, / Chanting and savoring it surpassed meat and fish / (the Master composed a record of his excursion to my Yanjia Pavilion at Huangchuan, and the record of the temple on Mount Laṅkā). / Now that the wise man has passed away, / The Supreme Way too is about to fall. / Already thirty years have elapsed; / Coming to mourn is in vain and deeply painful. / The wondrous peak is lofty as a stūpa; / The Brahmā Heaven is expansive as a realm / (realm is also written as wonder). / All myriad things prepare offerings of seasonal sacrifice; / The five clouds vie to assist and support. / Heaven and earth may at times pause; / The sea and mountain will someday wear away. / Yet the Master’s Way and his fame / Shall rise aloft, forever towering high!