Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, Fascicle Twelve

福州普光和尚。有僧立次。師以手開胸雲。還委老僧事麼。僧雲。猶有遮箇在。師卻掩胸雲。不妨太顯。僧雲。有什麼避處。師雲。的是無避處。僧雲。即今作麼生。師便打。

Monk Puguang of Fuzhou. A monk was standing there. The master opened his chest with his hand and said: "Do you know this old monk's affair?" The monk said: "There is still this." The master covered his chest again and said: "It is no matter that it is too obvious." The monk said: "Where is there to hide?" The master said: "Truly there is nowhere to hide." The monk said: "What about right now?" The master struck him.

吉州青原山行思禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Xingsi of Mount Qingyuan in Jizhou

第四世一十七人澧州龍潭崇信禪師法嗣二人朗州德山宣鑒禪師

Fourth generation, seventeen persons. Two Dharma heirs of Chan Master Chongxin of Longtan in Lizhou: Chan Master Xuanjian of Deshan in Langzhou

洪山泐潭寶峰和尚(已上二人見錄)

Monk Baofeng of Letan on Hongshan (the above two are recorded)

吉州性空禪師法嗣二人歙州茂源和尚

Two Dharma heirs of Chan Master Xingkong of Jizhou: Monk Maoyuan of Shezhou

棗山光仁禪師(已上二人見錄)

Chan Master Guangren of Zaoshan (the above two are recorded)

京兆翠微無學禪師法嗣五人鄂州清平山令遵禪師

Five Dharma heirs of Chan Master Wuxue of Cuiwei in Jingzhao: Chan Master Lingzun of Mount Qingping in Ezhou

舒州投子山大同禪師

Chan Master Datong of Mount Touzi in Shuzhou

湖州道場山如訥禪師

Chan Master Runa of Mount Daochang in Huzhou

建州白雲約禪師(已上四人見錄)

Chan Master Yue of Baiyun in Jianzhou (the above four are recorded)

伏牛山元通禪師(一人無機緣語句不錄)

Chan Master Yuantong of Mount Funiu (one person, no recorded sayings, not included)

潭州道吾山圓智禪師法嗣三人潭州石霜山慶諸禪師

Three Dharma heirs of Chan Master Yuanzhi of Mount Daowu in Tanzhou: Chan Master Qingzhu of Mount Shishuang in Tanzhou

潭州漸源仲興禪師

Chan Master Zhongxing of Jianyuan in Tanzhou

祿清和尚(已上三人見錄)

Monk Luqing (the above three are recorded)

潭州雲巖曇晟禪師法嗣四人筠州洞山良价禪師

Four Dharma heirs of Chan Master Tansheng of Yunyan in Tanzhou: Chan Master Liangjie of Dongshan in Junzhou

涿州杏山鑒洪禪師

Chan Master Jianhong of Xingshan in Zhuozhou

潭州神山僧密禪師

Chan Master Sengmi of Shenshan in Tanzhou

幽谿和尚(已上四人見錄)

Monk Youxi (the above four are recorded)

華亭船子德誠禪師法嗣一人澧州夾山善會禪師(一人見錄)

One Dharma heir of Chan Master Decheng the Boatman of Huating: Chan Master Shanhui of Jiashan in Lizhou (one recorded)

第五世上一十四人舒州投子山大同禪師法嗣一十三人第二世投子溫禪師

Fifth generation, fourteen persons. Thirteen Dharma heirs of Chan Master Datong of Mount Touzi in Shuzhou: Chan Master Wen, second-generation Touzi

福州牛頭微禪師

Chan Master Wei of Niutou in Fuzhou

西川香山澄照大師

Great Master Chengzhao of Xiangshan in Xichuan

陿府天福和尚

Monk Tianfu of Shanfu

濠州思明和尚

Monk Siming of Haozhou

鳳翔府招福和尚

Monk Zhaofu of Fengxiang Prefecture

興元中梁山遵古禪師

Chan Master Zungu of Mount Zhongliang in Xingyuan

襄州谷隱和尚

Monk Guyin of Xiangzhou

安州九嵕山和尚

Monk of Mount Jiuzong in Anzhou

幽州盤山第二世和尚

Second-generation Monk of Mount Pan in Youzhou

九嵕山敬慧禪師

Chan Master Jinghui of Mount Jiuzong

東京觀音院巖俊禪師(已上一十二人見錄)

Chan Master Yanjun of Guanyin Monastery in the Eastern Capital (the above twelve are recorded)

桂陽龍福真禪師(一人無機緣語句不錄)

Chan Master Zhen of Longfu in Guiyang (one person, no recorded sayings, not included)

鄂州清平山令遵禪師法嗣一人蘄州三角山令珪禪師(一人見錄)

One Dharma heir of Chan Master Lingzun of Mount Qingping in Ezhou: Chan Master Lingkui of Mount Sanjiao in Qizhou (one recorded)

行思禪師第四世

Fourth generation of Chan Master Xingsi

前澧州龍潭崇信禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of the former Chan Master Chongxin of Longtan in Lizhou

朗州德山宣鑒禪師。劍南人也。姓周氏。丱歲出家依年受具精究律藏。於性相諸經貫通旨趣。常講金剛般若。時謂之周金剛。厥後訪尋禪宗。因謂同學曰。一毛吞海海性無虧。纖芥投鋒鋒利不動。學與無學唯我知焉。因造龍潭信禪師。問答皆一語而已(前章出之)師即時辭去。龍潭留之。一夕於室外默坐。龍問。何不歸來。師對曰黑。龍乃點燭與師。師擬接。龍便吹滅。師乃禮拜。龍曰。見什麼。曰從今向去不疑天下老和尚舌頭也。至明日便發。龍潭謂諸徒曰。可中有一箇漢。牙如劍樹口似血盆。一棒打不迴頭。他時向孤峰頂上立吾道在。師抵於溈山。從法堂西過東迴視方丈。溈山無語。師曰。無也無也。便出至僧堂前乃曰。然雖如此不得草草。遂具威儀上再參。才跨門提起坐具喚曰。和尚。溈山擬取拂子。師喝之揚袂而出。溈山晚間問大眾。今日新到僧何在。對曰。那僧見和尚了更不顧僧堂便去也。溈山問眾。還識遮阿師也無。眾曰。不識溈曰。是伊將來有把茅蓋頭。罵佛罵祖去在。師住澧陽三十年。屬唐武宗廢教。避難於獨浮山之石室。大中初武陵太守薛廷望再崇德山精舍。號古德禪院(相國裴休題額見存)將訪求哲匠住持。聆師道行屢請不下山。廷望乃設詭計。遣吏以茶鹽誣之言犯禁法。取師入州瞻禮。堅請居之。大闡宗風(總印禪師開山創院鑒即第二世住也)師上堂謂眾曰。於己無事則勿妄求。妄求而得亦非得也。汝但無事於心無心於事。則虛而靈空而妙。若毛端許言之本末者皆為自欺。毫氂繫念三塗業因。瞥爾生情萬劫羇鎖。聖名凡號盡是虛聲。殊相劣形皆為幻色。汝欲求之得無累乎。及其厭之又成大患。終而無益。師上堂曰。今夜不得問話。問話者三十拄杖。時有僧出方禮拜。師乃打之。僧曰。某甲話也未問。和尚因什麼打某甲。師曰。汝是什麼處人。曰新羅人。師曰。

Chan Master Xuanjian of Deshan in Langzhou. He was a native of Jiannan, with the surname Zhou. He left home in childhood, received full precepts at the proper age, and studied the vinaya treasury thoroughly. He penetrated the meaning of the sutras on nature and characteristics. He often lectured on the Diamond Prajna, and people called him Zhou the Diamond. Afterward he went seeking the Chan school and said to his fellow students: "One hair swallows the sea, and the nature of the sea is not diminished. A fine mustard seed dropped on a blade, and the sharpness does not move. Learning and no-more-learning, only I know." He then went to Chan Master Xin of Longtan, and question and answer were each a single phrase. (This appears in the earlier chapter.) The master took his leave at once. Longtan kept him. One evening he sat silently outside the room. Longtan asked: "Why don't you come back in?" The master replied: "Dark." Longtan then lit a candle for the master. The master was about to take it when Longtan blew it out. The master bowed. Longtan said: "What did you see?" He said: "From now on I will not doubt the tongues of the old monks of the world." The next day he set out. Longtan said to his disciples: "There is a fellow among them with teeth like a sword forest and a mouth like a bowl of blood. A blow of the staff will not make him turn his head. In the future he will stand on a lonely peak and establish my Way." The master arrived at Mount Wei and crossed the Dharma hall from west to east, looking back at the abbot's room. Mount Wei said nothing. The master said: "Nothing, nothing." and went out. At the front of the monks' hall he said: "Even so, one must not be careless." He then put on his formal bearing and visited again. As soon as he crossed the threshold he lifted his sitting cloth and called: "Monk." Mount Wei reached for his whisk. The master shouted, flung his sleeves and went out. In the evening Mount Wei asked the assembly: "Where is the newly arrived monk today?" They answered: "That monk, after seeing the master, did not even look at the monks' hall and left." Mount Wei asked the assembly: "Do you recognize this monk?" They said: "We do not." Mount Wei said: "In future he will cover his head with a thatch of grass and go on scolding Buddhas and scolding patriarchs." The master lived in Liyang for thirty years. When the Tang Emperor Wuzong suppressed Buddhism, he took refuge in a stone chamber on Mount Dufu. In the early Dazhong era, Xue Tingwang, prefect of Wuling, restored the hermitage on Mount De and named it the Old Virtue Chan Monastery (the inscription by Prime Minister Pei Xiu is still extant), and sought an eminent teacher to preside. Hearing of the master's Way and conduct, he invited him repeatedly but he did not come down the mountain. Tingwang then devised a trick, sent officials to accuse him falsely of carrying contraband tea and salt, brought the master to the prefecture to pay respects, and earnestly asked him to stay, and he greatly propagated the Chan way. (Chan Master Zongyin founded the monastery; Xuanjian was the second abbot.) The master addressed the assembly in the hall, saying: "If you have nothing to do for yourself, do not seek falsely. What you get by false seeking is not truly obtained. If you only have no business in the mind and no mind in business, then you are empty and spiritual, void and wondrous. Anything said about the beginning and end even as small as a hair tip is self-deception. A hair's breadth of clinging thought is the karmic cause of the three evil paths. A glance giving rise to feeling is a lock for ten thousand kalpas. The names of sage and ordinary are all empty sounds. Extraordinary marks and base forms are all illusory colors. If you wish to seek them, will you not be burdened? When you tire of them, it becomes a great trouble. In the end there is no benefit." The master said in the hall: "Tonight there are no questions. Anyone who asks gets thirty blows." At that time a monk came out and had just bowed when the master struck him. The monk said: "I have not even asked; why does the master strike me?" The master said: "Where are you from?" He said: "I am from Silla." The master said: