No. 279-B重刻首楞嚴經通議序
Preface to the Reprint of the Comprehensive Commentary on the Surangama Sutra
大哉教乎！如來金口誠言，祖師悲心詮解，求其妙而得入、深而易悟者，無如憨山大師著釋首楞嚴經之通議也！宗趣昭然，言辭切約，不是離文顯妙，亦非滯句談玄；融性相二宗，徹一心三觀，符定宗旨，不遺纖毫，本末圓通，始終一貫，誠教苑之司南、禪宗之正眼也！(閑)始披緇雲山，遂獲夢遊殘本玩其垂訓法教，莫不周質悚然；及至聽講楞嚴，甞閱諸家疏解，方知大師亦有發明是經者名之曰通議，於是銘心五內，未遘一觀，從斯歷十餘年，莫不念念於是書也！甲午春雲遊台嶽，果遂前心，消熱惱於一時，鎔冰襟於頃刻；偶經觸目，喜出尋常，繇茲不耐守株，唱緣䥴梓，實有心公諸同志，未敢言濬大師之法流也！
What a great teaching this is! The Tathāgata's golden-mouthed words of truth, and the patriarchs' compassionate explanations—yet when seeking what is wondrous and can be entered, profound yet easy to awaken to, nothing compares to Great Master Hanshan's *Comprehensive Commentary on the Surangama Sutra*! Its essential purport shines clear, its words are incisive and concise; it does not depart from the text to reveal the wondrous, nor does it get stuck on phrases to discuss the arcane. It harmonizes the two schools of Nature and Characteristics, penetrates the single mind's Three Contemplations, accords with the definitive purport, and omits not the slightest detail; root and branches are perfectly interpenetrating, beginning and end run through as one—truly the compass of the teaching garden and the true eye of the Chan school!
(At leisure) When I first donned the black robes in the cloud mountains, I then obtained a dream-traveled incomplete copy and delighted in its handed-down instructions and Dharma teachings—none of it but thorough and awe-inspiring. When I later heard lectures on the Surangama and had occasion to read the various masters' commentaries, I then learned that the Great Master had also illuminated this sutra in a work titled *Comprehensive Commentary*. Thereupon I engraved it in my heart, yet had not seen it even once; from then on more than ten years passed, and never did my thoughts fail to dwell on this book! In the spring of the Jiamu year I wandered as a cloud to Mount Tai, and indeed fulfilled my former wish, dissolving feverish affliction in a single moment and melting the ice of my heart in an instant. Happening to cast my eyes upon it, my joy exceeded the ordinary; from this I could no longer bear to wait idly, and calling together the conditions, I had it carved and printed. Truly my heart was set on making it public to fellow seekers; I dare not claim to be spreading the Master's Dharma stream!
時光緒二十年孟冬月天台嫡裔雲水山人諦閑書於申江龍華寺之藏經閣