Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, Fascicle 3

五臺山秘魔巖和尚常持一木叉。每見僧來禮拜。即叉卻頸雲。那箇魔魅教汝出家。那箇魔魅教汝行腳。道得也叉下死。道不得也叉下死。速道。學僧鮮有對者(法眼代雲乞命。法燈代雲。但引頸示之。玄覺代雲。老兒家放卻叉子得也)。

The Venerable of Mimo Cliff on Mount Wutai always held a wooden fork. Whenever he saw a monk come to bow, he pinned him at the neck with the fork and said: "What demon taught you to leave home? What demon taught you to go on pilgrimage? If you can say, you die under the fork; if you cannot say, you die under the fork. Quickly, say it." Few students had an answer. (Fayan answered for him: "Spare my life." Fadeng answered for him: "Just stretch out the neck to show him." Xuanjue answered for him: "The old man can put down the fork.")

湖南祇林和尚。每叱文殊普賢皆為精魅。手持木劍自謂降魔。才有僧參禮。便雲。魔來也魔來也。以劍亂揮潛入方丈如是十二年。後置劍無言。僧問。十二年前為什麼降魔。師曰。賊不打貧兒家。曰十二年後為什麼不降魔。師曰。賊不打貧兒家。

The Venerable of Zhilin in Hunan. He constantly scolded Manjushri and Samantabhadra as goblins, and holding a wooden sword called himself the demon subduer. As soon as a monk came to bow, he said: "The demon is coming, the demon is coming." He slashed wildly with the sword and slipped into his room. He did so for twelve years. Later he put down the sword and was silent. A monk asked: "Twelve years ago why did you subdue demons?" The master said: "A thief does not rob a poor man's house." He said: "Twelve years later why do you not subdue demons?" The master said: "A thief does not rob a poor man's house."

前幽州盤山寶積禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of the earlier Chan Master Baoji of Mount Pan in Youzhou

鎮州普化和尚者不知何許人也。師事盤山密受真訣。而佯狂出言無度。暨盤山順世乃於北地行化。或城市或塚間。振一鐸雲。明頭來也打。暗頭來也打。一日臨濟令僧捉住雲。不明不暗時如何。答雲。來日大悲院裡有齋。凡見人無高下。皆振鐸一聲。時號普化和尚。或將鐸就人耳邊振之。或拊其背。有迴顧者即展手雲。乞我一錢。非時遇食亦吃。嘗暮入臨濟院吃生菜飯。臨濟曰。遮漢大似一頭驢。師便作驢鳴。臨濟乃休。師曰。臨濟小廝兒只具一隻眼(僧問法眼未審臨濟當時下得什麼語。法眼雲。臨濟留與後人)師見馬步使出喝道師亦喝道及作相撲勢。馬步使令人打五棒。師曰。似即似是即不是。師嘗於闤闠間搖鐸唱曰。覓箇去處不可得。時道吾遇之把住問曰。汝擬去什麼處。師曰。汝從什麼處來。道吾無語。師掣手便去。一日入臨濟院。臨濟曰賊賊。師亦曰賊賊。同入僧堂。臨濟指聖僧問是凡是聖。師曰是聖。臨濟曰。作遮箇語話。師乃撼鐸唱曰。河陽新婦子。木塔老婆禪。臨濟小廝兒只具一隻眼師唐咸通初將示滅。乃入市謂人曰。乞一箇直裰。人或與披襖或與布裘。皆不受。振鐸而去。時臨濟令人送與一棺。師笑曰。臨濟廝兒饒舌。便受之。乃告辭曰。普化明日去東門死也。郡人相率送出城。師厲聲曰。今日葬不合青烏。乃曰。第二日南門遷化。人亦隨之。又曰。明日出西門方吉。人出漸稀。出已還返。人意稍怠。第四日自擎棺出北門外。振鐸入棺而逝。郡人奔走出城。揭棺視之已不見。唯聞鐸聲漸遠。莫測其由。

The Venerable Puhua of Zhenzhou, whose origins are unknown. He served Panshan and secretly received the true secret, but feigned madness and spoke without restraint. When Panshan passed away, he went to teach in the northern lands. Sometimes in the city, sometimes among the tombs, he rang a bell and said: "If it comes bright, I strike; if it comes dark, I strike." One day Linji had a monk seize him and say: "What is it when it is neither bright nor dark?" He answered: "Tomorrow there is a vegetarian feast at Dabei Cloister." Whenever he saw people of any rank, he rang the bell once, and so he was called the Venerable Puhua. Sometimes he rang the bell by someone's ear, or patted their back. If someone looked back, he held out his hand and said: "Give me a coin." Even out of season he would eat any food he met. Once in the evening he entered Linji's cloister and ate a raw vegetable meal. Linji said: "This fellow is very like a donkey." The master brayed like a donkey. Linji then stopped. The master said: "The little fellow Linji has only one eye." (A monk asked Fayan: "What words did Linji use at that time?" Fayan said: "Linji left it for later generations.") The master saw the mounted officer come out clearing the way with shouts, and he also shouted and made a wrestling stance. The mounted officer had him beaten with five blows. The master said: "Like it, but it is not it." The master once rang a bell in the market and sang: "Seeking a place to go cannot be found." At that time Daowu met him, seized him and asked: "Where do you intend to go?" The master said: "Where have you come from?" Daowu had no reply. The master pulled his hand away and left. One day he entered Linji's cloister. Linji said: "Thief, thief." The master also said: "Thief, thief." They entered the monks' hall together. Linji pointed to the statue of the sage monk and asked: "Is it ordinary or sage?" The master said: "It is sage." Linji said: "Do you talk like this?" The master shook the bell and sang: "The bride of Heyang, the wooden pagoda old woman's Chan. The little fellow Linji has only one eye." In the early Xiantong era of the Tang, about to show extinction, the master went into the market and said to people: "I beg for a plain robe." Some gave him a jacket and some a cloth coat, but he accepted none and left ringing the bell. At that time Linji had someone send him a coffin. The master laughed and said: "The little fellow Linji is talkative." He then accepted it. He took leave and said: "Puhua will die at the east gate tomorrow." The townspeople led one another out of the city to see him off. The master said sternly: "Today's burial is not auspicious." He said: "On the second day I will pass away at the south gate." People again followed. He also said: "Tomorrow, leaving by the west gate will be auspicious." Fewer people went out, and after he went out he returned, and people's intentions slackened. On the fourth day he carried the coffin himself out of the north gate, rang his bell and entered the coffin and died. The townspeople ran out of the city, opened the coffin and looked, and he was no longer there; they only heard the sound of the bell gradually receding, and could not fathom the reason.

前龍牙山圓暢禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of the earlier Chan Master Yuanchang of Mount Longya

嘉禾藏廙禪師。衢州信安人也。姓程氏。唐元和中辭親往長沙嶽麓寺。禮靈智律師出家。長慶三年於武陵開元寺受戒。因聽律部語同學曰。教門繁廣宜扣總門。遂緣會龍牙山暢禪師。龍牙告之曰。蘊界不真。佛生非我。子之正本當復何名而從誰得。師一言領悟。迴柯山避會昌沙汰。後於龍興廣揚道化。乾符六年三月中長往。壽八十二。臘五十六。

Chan Master Zangyi of Jiahe was a native of Xin'an in Quzhou, surnamed Cheng. In the Yuanhe era of the Tang, he left his family and went to Yuelu Monastery in Changsha, and left home under Vinaya Master Lingzhi. In the third year of Changqing he received the precepts at Kaiyuan Monastery in Wuling. Having listened to the vinaya section, he said to his fellow student: "The teachings are vast and numerous; one should knock on the general gate." So he came to meet Chan Master Chang of Mount Longya. Longya told him: "The aggregates and elements are not real, and Buddha-birth is not mine. What name should your true root be called, and from whom was it obtained?" The master awakened at a word. He returned to Mount Ke and avoided the Huichang suppression. Afterward he widely spread the teaching at Longxing. In the third month of the sixth year of Qianfu he departed for good, aged eighty-two, with fifty-six monastic years.

前歸宗寺智常禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of the earlier Chan Master Zhichang of Guizong Monastery

福州芙蓉山靈訓禪師。初參歸宗問。如何是佛。宗曰。我向汝道汝還信否。師曰。和尚發誠實言何敢不信。宗曰。即汝便是。師曰。如何保任。宗曰。一翳在眼空華亂墜(法眼雲。歸宗若無後語有什麼歸宗也)師辭歸宗。宗問。子什麼處去。師曰。歸嶺中去。宗曰。子在此多年裝束了卻來。為子說一上佛法。師結束了上堂。宗曰。近前來。師乃近前。宗曰。時寒途中善為。師聆此一言頓忘前解。後歸寂諡弘照大師。塔曰圓相。

Chan Master Lingxun of Furong Mountain in Fuzhou. He first studied with Guizong and asked: "What is the Buddha?" Zong said: "If I tell you, will you believe it?" The master said: "If the Venerable speaks truthful words, how dare I not believe?" Zong said: "It is you." The master said: "How should I maintain it?" Zong said: "One speck of dust in the eye, and flowers in the sky fall in confusion." (Fayan said: "If Guizong had not had the later words, what would there be of Guizong?") The master took leave of Guizong. Zong asked: "Where are you going?" The master said: "Back to the south of the ridge." Zong said: "You have been here many years; when you have packed, come back and I will give you a sermon on the Buddha-Dharma." The master finished packing and ascended the hall. Zong said: "Come closer." The master came closer. Zong said: "It is cold; take care on the road." Hearing this one phrase, the master suddenly forgot his earlier understanding. Later he passed into stillness and was posthumously named Great Master Hongzhao, with a stupa called Yuanxiang.

漢南穀城縣高亭和尚。有僧自夾山來禮拜。師便打。僧雲。特來禮拜。師何打。其僧再禮拜。師又打趁。僧迴舉似夾山。夾山雲。汝會也無。僧雲。不會。夾山雲。賴汝不會。若會即夾山口瘂。

The Venerable Gaoting of Gucheng county in Hannan. A monk came from Jiashan to bow. The master struck him. The monk said: "I have come especially to bow; why does the Venerable strike me?" The monk bowed again. The master struck and drove him off again. The monk went back and told Jiashan. Jiashan said: "Do you understand?" The monk said: "I do not." Jiashan said: "Fortunately you do not understand. If you did, Jiashan would be mute."

新羅大茅和尚上堂雲。欲識諸佛師。向無明心內識取。欲識常住不彫性。向萬木遷變處識取。僧問。如何是大茅境。師雲。不露鋒。僧雲。為什麼不露鋒。師雲無當者。

The Venerable Damao of Silla ascended the hall and said: "To know the teacher of all Buddhas, recognize him within the ignorant mind. To know the unwithering ever-abiding nature, recognize it where the ten thousand trees change." A monk asked: "What is the scene of Damao?" The master said: "It does not show its blade." The monk said: "Why does it not show its blade?" The master said: "There is no one to match it."

五臺山智通禪師(自稱大禪佛)初在歸宗會下時。忽一夜巡堂叫雲。我已大悟也。眾駭之。明日歸宗上堂集眾問。昨夜大悟底僧出來。師出雲。智通。歸宗雲。汝見什麼道理言大悟。試說似吾看。師對雲。師姑天然是女人作。歸宗默而異之。師便辭。歸宗門送與拈笠子。師接得笠子戴頭上便行。更不迴顧。後居臺山法華寺。臨終有偈曰。

Chan Master Zhitong of Mount Wutai (who called himself Great Chan Buddha). When he was first in the assembly of Guizong, one night he suddenly made rounds of the hall shouting: "I have greatly awakened!" The assembly was startled. The next day Guizong ascended the hall, gathered the assembly and asked: "The monk who greatly awakened last night, come forward." The master came forward and said: "Zhitong." Guizong said: "What principle did you see that you say you greatly awakened? Try to tell me." The master replied: "The nun is naturally made by a woman." Guizong was silent, finding him extraordinary. The master took his leave. Guizong saw him off at the gate and handed him his bamboo hat. The master took the hat, put it on his head and left without looking back. Later he lived at Fahua Monastery on Mount Tai. At his death he left a verse:

舉手攀南斗迴身倚北辰

Raising my hand I grasp the Southern Dipper, turning around I lean on the North Star.

出頭天外見誰是我般人

My head emerges to see beyond the heavens; who is a person like me?

前華嚴寺智藏禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of the earlier Chan Master Zhizang of Huayan Monastery

黃州齊安和尚示學眾曰。言不落句佛祖徒施。玄韻不墜誰人知得。僧問。如何識得自己佛。師曰。一葉明時消不盡。松風韻罷怨無人。僧曰。如何是自己佛。師曰。草前駿馬實難窮。妙盡還須畜生行。人問。大師年多少。師曰。五六四三不得類。豈同一二實難窮。師有頌曰。

The Venerable Qi'an of Huangzhou showed the assembly: "If words do not fall into phrases, the Buddhas and patriarchs bestow in vain. If the profound resonance does not fall, who can know it?" A monk asked: "How does one recognize one's own Buddha?" The master said: "When one leaf is bright it cannot be exhausted; when the pine wind's tune ends, one resents that no one is there." The monk said: "What is one's own Buddha?" The master said: "A swift horse before the grass is truly hard to exhaust; to perfect the wonder one must still walk as an animal." Someone asked: "How old is the Great Master?" The master said: "Five, six, four, three cannot be classed; how can it be the same as one and two, truly hard to exhaust." The master had a verse:

猛熾焰中人有路旋風頂上屹然棲

In the fierce blazing flames there is a path for people, and one perches steadily atop the whirlwind.

鎮常歷劫誰差互杲日無言運照齊

Constant through kalpas, who can mistake it? The bright sun, without words, shines everywhere equally.

師後居鳳翔。

The master later lived in Fengxiang.

懷讓禪師第四世上八十九人

Eighty-nine persons above, the fourth generation from Chan Master Huairang

潭州溈山靈祐禪師法嗣四十三人袁州仰山慧寂禪師

Forty-three Dharma heirs of Chan Master Lingyou of Weishan in Tanzhou: Chan Master Huiji of Yangshan in Yuanzhou

鄧州香嚴寺智閑禪師

Chan Master Zhixian of Xiangyan Monastery in Dengzhou

襄州延慶法端禪師(十二卷又收在香嚴下何也)

Chan Master Faduan of Yanqing in Xiangzhou (fascicle 12 again lists him under Xiangyan; why?)

杭州徑山洪諲禪師

Chan Master Hongyin of Jingshan in Hangzhou

福州靈雲志勤禪師

Chan Master Zhiqin of Lingyun in Fuzhou

益州應天和尚

The Venerable Yingtian of Yizhou

福州九峰慈慧禪師

Chan Master Cihui of Jiufeng in Fuzhou

京兆米和尚

The Venerable Mi of Jingzhao

晉州霍山和尚

The Venerable Huoshan of Jinzhou

襄州王敬初常侍(已上十一人見錄)

Attendant Wang Jingchu of Xiangzhou (the above eleven are recorded)

福州雙峰和尚

The Venerable Shuangfeng of Fuzhou

長延圓鑑禪師

Chan Master Yuanjian of Changyan

志和禪師

Chan Master Zhihe

洪州西山道方禪師

Chan Master Daofang of Xishan in Hongzhou

溈山如真禪師

Chan Master Ruzhen of Weishan

幷州元順禪師

Chan Master Yuanshun of Bingzhou

興元府崇皓禪師

Chan Master Chonghao of Xingyuan Prefecture