大唐內典錄 5.23

5.23

Great Calming and Insight (ten fascicles; delivered at Yuquan Monastery in Jingzhou, recorded in writing by the monk Guanding)
Door of the Dhyāna-pāramitā (ten fascicles; delivered at Waguan Monastery in Jinling, recorded by the monk Fashen)
Commentary on the Vimalakīrti-sūtra (thirty fascicles; requested to be produced by the Sui emperor, together with the earlier profound meaning in ten fascicles and the later profound meaning in six fascicles)
Profound Meaning of the Lotus (ten fascicles; recorded in writing by the monk Guanding)
Commentary on the Lotus (ten fascicles; recorded in writing by the monk Guanding)
Lesser Calming and Insight (two fascicles)
Six Wondrous Doors
Awakened-Mind Samādhi
Lotus Samādhi
Treatise on Contemplating the Mind
Meaning of the Three Contemplations
Meaning of the Four Teachings
Meaning of the Four Siddhāntas
Meaning of the Tathāgata's Lifespan
Chapters on the Gradations of the Dharmadhātu (three fascicles)
Practice of the Great Vaipulya
Practice for the Realized Signs of the Pratyutpanna
Practice for Invoking Avalokiteśvara
Biography of Dhyāna Master Huisi of Mount Nanyue
The above nineteen works in eighty-seven fascicles were composed by the monk Shi Zhiyi of Mount Tiantai. Zhiyi's secular surname was Chen, and he was a native of Jingnan. In his youth he had mysterious and auspicious portents, and from early on he received the profound teaching. Harbouing the Dao at Tiantai, he sought a teacher on the peaks of Mount Heng. He jointly promulgated concentration and wisdom, and completely illuminated the One Vehicle. He received the four teachings from a divine monk and was transmitted the three contemplations from a superior virtuous master. Entering the Lotus Samādhi, he realized the dhāraṇī door. His illumination of the Lotus was like the brilliant light shining over a dark valley; his expounding of the Mahāyāna was like a soaring wind traversing the vast emptiness. Even if thousands of groups and tens of thousands of masters of words and letters sought that wondrous eloquence, none could exhaust it. From the time he set out from Mount Nanyue, he propagated the Way in Jinling, established his practice at Yuquan, and retreated into seclusion on the ridges of Tiantai. For more than thirty years he vigorously promoted the One Vehicle; the benefit of his calming and insight and dhyāna methods was far-reaching indeed. Its meaning was like pointing at the moon, not lingering on the fish trap or hare snare. In a single dharma he would expound immeasurable meanings; gathering immeasurable meanings, he returned them into the single mind. Truly his contemplations were profound and subtle, and his pure eloquence was inexhaustible. Because of this, Dharma companions from the four quarters asking for instruction were thick as a forest; whether in concentration or wisdom, the transmission of the lamp grew ever wider. Moved by great capacities, he composed these writings, all of which accord with the principle of non-arising and converge upon the single ultimate. As for the dhyāna doors, calming and insight, and the Profound Meaning of the Lotus, they were merely expounded for the assembly by relying on the contemplation of the mind. Guanding and Fashen recorded them in writing as they listened. Zhiyi sanctioned them himself, and they were widely circulated throughout the world. They may be called the mind's mirror for practitioners and a bright lamp in the great night; since antiquity, methods of contemplation have never surpassed them. The two emperors of Chen and Sui honored him as a national treasure; revering the person and valuing the Dharma, they entrusted themselves to him as to a ferry-boat. His shedding of precious things and his abandonment of his body are detailed in the separate biographies.
Contemplation of the Four Applications of Mindfulness (four fascicles)
One Hundred Records of Guoqing Monastery on Mount Tiantai (five fascicles)
Practice of the Golden Light
Oral Instructions on Cultivating Dhyāna and Realizing Its Signs
Separate Biography of Master Zhizhe of Tiantai
Separate Biography of Dharma Master Zhenguan of Hangzhou
The above [six works in] thirteen fascicles were composed by the monk Shi Guanding of Guoqing Monastery on Mount Tiantai. Guanding was a nephew of Zhizhe. His noble conduct was pure like ice and frost, and his exceptional spirit was clear and bright. In hearing and retaining the teachings and principles, he was like water poured from one vessel to another. He deeply understood calming and insight and cultivated concentration and wisdom in tandem. Expounding the wondrous Dharma, the lotus of auspicious portents opened in the pond; learners arriving like clouds, a spring of light and sweet water welled up. Zhizhe of Tiantai delighted in unceasing preaching, expounding calming, insight, and dhyāna methods by relying on the mind; Guanding retained everything entirely, not losing anything upon hearing it once. In the spare time from concentration and wisdom, he produced the Contemplation of the Four Applications of Mindfulness and various biographies and records, narrating how the two emperors of the Chen and Sui dynasties revered and had faith in the Three Jewels, respected teachers, valued the Dharma, and took refuge in veneration. Furthermore, he composed commentaries on sūtras such as the Lotus, Nirvāṇa, Vimalakīrti, Golden Light, and Invoking Avalokiteśvara, each in its own fascicles, which are not completely recorded here.