釋氏要覽 3.396

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釋氏之喪服。讀涅槃經。并諸律。並無其制。今準增輝記。引禮云。服有三。一正服。二義服。三降服。白虎通曰。弟子於師。有君臣父子朋友之道故。生則尊敬而親之。死則哀痛之。恩深義重。故為降服○釋氏喪儀云。若受業和尚。同於父母。訓育恩深。例皆三年服。若依止師資飡法訓次於和尚隨喪服。五杉云。師服者。皆同法服。但用布稍麄純染黃褐。增輝云。但染蒼皴之色。稍異於常爾。有人呼墨黲衣。為衰服。蓋昧之也。言衰者（衰音崔或作縗）俗禮喪服傳云。衣上之物則有袪袂衰燕尾衣帶下尺負版等同名衰服者。其衰之制。用布長六寸。象六腑薄四寸象四時綴於衣左襟廣袤當心言衰者摧也。象孝子心思親摧傷也。故稱斬衰齊衰（齊音咨）焉衣本不名衰蓋從此布以名也。此衰布至小祥先除之。墨黲前法衣中有釋。

Regarding the mourning dress of Buddhists: Reading the Nirvāṇa Sūtra and the various vinayas, there is no such regulation. Now, according to the Zenghui ji, citing the Rites: There are three kinds of mourning dress: first, principal dress; second, moral dress; third, reduced dress. The Baihutong says: "Between disciples and masters, there are the principles of ruler and minister, father and son, and friends. Therefore, while [the master] lives, they revere and draw close to him; when he dies, they lament and grieve for him. Because kindness is deep and duty is grave, they wear reduced dress." / The Buddhist Funeral Rites says: "If it is the preceptor under whom one studied, he is the same as one's parents. The debt of his instruction and upbringing being profound, it is uniformly three years of mourning dress. If it is an ācārya on whom one relied to receive teachings, he is next to the preceptor, and one follows with appropriate mourning dress." The Wushan ji says: "Dress for a master is identical to the Dharma robe, except that slightly coarser cloth dyed purely yellowish-brown is used." The Zenghui ji says: "It is merely dyed a grayish-wrinkled color, slightly differing from the ordinary." Some call black-gray robes mourning dress (cuīfú), which is out of ignorance. As for the word cuī (pronounced cuī, sometimes written 縗): The commentary on mourning dress in secular rites says: "Garments have on them cuffs, sleeves, chest-patches (cuī), swallow-tails, waistbands, sash-ends, back-boards, and so forth, collectively called mourning dress (cuīfú). The regulation for the chest-patch (cuī) is cloth six inches long, symbolizing the six viscera, and four inches wide, symbolizing the four seasons, sewn to the left lapel of the garment, matching the heart in breadth and length. Cuī means heart-broken (cuī), symbolizing the filial child's mind longing for their parents and being heart-broken and wounded." Hence they are called unhemmed sackcloth (zhāncuī) and hemmed sackcloth (zīcuī; zī is pronounced zī). The robe itself is not originally called cuī; it is named after this piece of cloth. This cuī cloth is removed first at the minor auspicious sacrifice (xiǎoxiáng). Black-gray cloth has been explained earlier under the section on Dharma robes.