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title: "續比丘尼傳 · 四七、宋蘇州資壽寺尼妙總傳"
description: "續比丘尼傳由釋震華法師於民國時期編述，是中國佛教史上專門記載比丘尼事蹟的重要傳記。該書編撰於二十世紀上半葉，繼承了梁代寶唱《比丘尼傳》的傳統，系統收錄了自南北朝至民國以來的傑出比丘尼傳記。內容詳實記錄了她們的修行經歷、弘法事蹟及對佛教的貢獻，填補了佛教史傳中女性修行者記載的空白。此書不僅是研究中國比丘尼歷史與佛教女性地位的關鍵文獻，也是了解近現代漢傳佛教發展的重要史料，具有極高的學術與宗教價值。"
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### 四七、宋蘇州資壽寺尼妙總傳

> 47\. Biography of Miaozong, Nun of Zishou Temple in Suzhou, Song Dynasty

妙總，字無著，姓蘇氏。父中大夫象先，南徐丞相實大父也。年甫十五，忽念曰：「吾生身何來，死復何去？」良久，脫然有得，初不以為意。長適毘陵許氏，不膠世故，志慕空宗，以禪寂為進修。時惠嚴圓公嗣圓照，佚居普門，乃扣以出世間法，機感相契。次見關西智、寂室光、真歇了，問答如流，咸敬異之。偶夫壽元官嘉禾，大慧至郡，元具飯以迎，總出禮拜，無一言。大慧退，謂給事馮公濟川曰：「許司理閣中，曾見神見鬼。但未遇本分鉗鎚，如萬斛舟置之絕潢斷港，莫能轉動。」馮曰：「何言之易耶？」慧曰：「他若回頭，定須別也。」次日，道俗請慧說法，總與會慧痛詆諸方異見邪解，聽者駭顧，總獨喜見眉睫間。既下座，總請道號，慧以無著號之。且示以偈曰：「盡道山僧愛罵人，未曾罵著一箇漢。只有無著罵不動，恰似秦時𨍏轢鑽。既罵不動，為甚麼似𨍏轢鑽？具眼者辨。」越明年，總登徑山，隨眾坐夏，濟川亦在焉。慧上堂，舉「石頭『恁麼不恁麼總不得』」語，馮曰：「某會得也。」慧徵之，馮著語曰：「恁麼也不得，蘇盧薩婆訶；不恁麼也不得，悉哩薩婆訶；恁麼不恁麼總不得，蘇盧悉哩薩婆訶。」慧舉馮語似總，總曰：「人謂郭象註莊子，卻是莊子註郭象。」慧雖異其言，但嘿而不顧，且欲激其遠到。忽一日，正危坐間，豁然大悟，洞見大慧委曲相為處，不覺撫掌厲聲曰：「這老賊！這老賊！」遂呈頌云：「驀然觸著鼻頭，伎倆冰消瓦解。達摩何必西來，二祖枉施三拜。更問如何若何，一隊草賊大敗。」慧亦以偈印之：「汝既悟活祖師意，一刀兩段直下了。臨機一一任天真，世出世間無剩少。我作此偈為證明，四聖六凡盡驚擾。休驚擾，碧眼胡僧猶未曉。」時萬庵顏公首眾，與一千七百衲子，咸以偈餞其歸，且賀法門之得人也。馮公猶未之信，舟歸無錫，問總：「『巖頭為渡子時，婆生七子』話，徑山稱道人會得，作如何會？」總云：「已上所供並是論實，仍以偈明之。」有以禮部僧牒無著師號為施者，師說偈受之，祝髮披緇，克遂初志，紹興壬午年也。時張公安國守吳門，資壽虛席，張盡禮迎請。乃開堂於資壽，拈香為大慧之嗣，唱提具於語錄。乾道六年七月十四日，集眾說偈畢，撼之則已去矣，年七十六。全身葬於無錫軍將山東，紹定庚寅閏二月末，遷葬於平江虎丘之東北，庵曰達本，奉塔藏之。

> Miaozong, whose courtesy name was Wuzhuo, was born into the Su family. Her father, Xiangxian, held the position of Grand Master of the Palace, and her grandfather was the Chancellor of Nanxu. At the age of fifteen, she suddenly pondered, "Where did this body of mine come from? And where will it go after death?" After a long while, she experienced a sudden, liberating insight, though she did not initially pay it much mind. When she grew older, she married into the Xu family of Piling. She was not entangled in worldly affairs and aspired to the teachings of emptiness, taking meditation and stillness as her path of cultivation. At that time, Master Huiyan Yuangong, a successor of Yuanzhao, was residing at Pumen Temple. Miaozong sought him out to inquire about the Dharma that transcends the world. Their minds connected, and their interaction was harmonious. She later met Master Zhi of Guanxi, Master Guang of Jishi, and Master Liao of Zhenxie. In dialogue with them, her responses flowed effortlessly, and they all regarded her with respect and admiration. By chance, her husband, Xu Shouyuan, was an official in Jiahe. When the great master Dahui arrived in the commandery, Shouyuan prepared a meal to welcome him. Miaozong came out to pay her respects but did not utter a single word. After Dahui left, he said to the Attendant Gentleman Feng Jichuan, "In the inner chambers of Magistrate Xu, I have encountered one who has seen spirits and ghosts. However, she has not yet met the true forging hammer of our fundamental duty. She is like a ten-thousand-hulk ship placed in a dried-up canal or a cut-off harbor—unable to move or turn." Feng said, "Why do you speak so easily of this?" Dahui replied, "If she turns her head around, it will certainly be something different." The next day, monastics and laypeople requested Dahui to give a Dharma talk. Miaozong attended the assembly. Dahui vehemently criticized the various erroneous views and misguided understandings prevalent in different quarters. The listeners were shocked and looked around in dismay, but Miaozong alone showed delight in her eyes. After descending from the seat, Miaozong requested a Dharma name. Dahui bestowed upon her the name "Wuzhuo" (Non-Attachment) and presented her with a verse: "Everyone says this mountain monk loves to scold people, Yet I have never scolded a single fellow. Only Wuzhuo cannot be scolded, Just like a drill from the Qin dynasty. Since she cannot be scolded, Why is she like a drill? Let those with discerning eyes distinguish." The following year, Miaozong ascended Jing Mountain and spent the summer retreat there with the assembly. Feng Jichuan was also present. Dahui ascended the hall and brought up the saying of Shitou: "Thus, not thus—both are unacceptable." Feng said, "I understand this." Dahui asked him to elaborate. Feng offered his words: "Thus is also unacceptable—\*Sulu sapoha\*; Not thus is also unacceptable—\*Xili sapoha\*; Thus and not thus are both unacceptable—\*Sulu xili sapoha\*." Dahui presented Feng's words to Miaozong. She said, "People say Guo Xiang annotated Zhuangzi, but here it is Zhuangzi annotating Guo Xiang." Although Dahui found her words remarkable, he remained silent and did not acknowledge them, wishing instead to spur her toward greater attainment. Suddenly, one day, while sitting upright in meditation, she experienced a great, thorough awakening. She clearly saw Dahui's subtle and skillful method of guiding her. Unconsciously, she clapped her hands and exclaimed loudly, "This old rogue! This old rogue!" She then presented a verse: "Suddenly touching the tip of the nose, All tricks and schemes melt like ice, collapse like tiles. Why did Bodhidharma need to come from the West? The Second Patriarch vainly offered his three bows. If you further ask 'how' or 'what,' A whole band of grass-bandits is utterly defeated." Dahui also sealed it with a verse: "Since you have awakened to the living intent of the Patriarch, Cut it cleanly with one stroke of the sword, directly understood. Facing each situation, act with natural innocence, Nothing lacking in the worldly or the transcendent. I compose this verse as proof, Startling all within the Four Sagely Realms and Six Ordinary Realms. Do not be startled— Even the blue-eyed foreign monk has not yet understood." At that time, Master Wan'an Yian was the head of the assembly. Together with seventeen hundred monks, they all composed verses to bid her farewell upon her return, celebrating that the Dharma gate had gained such a person. Feng Gong still did not fully believe. On the boat returning to Wuxi, he asked Miaozong, "Regarding the story of 'Yantou as the ferryman and the old woman giving birth to seven sons,' which Jing Mountain (Dahui) said the adept understood—how do you understand it?" Miaozong said, "All that has been presented above is spoken truly." She then clarified with a verse. Someone offered her the official monastic certificate from the Ministry of Rites bearing the title "Master Wuzhuo." The Master spoke a verse, accepted it, shaved her head, donned the black robes, and thus fulfilled her original aspiration. This was in the Renwu year of the Shaoxing era (1162). At that time, Zhang Anguo was the prefect of Wumen. The position of abbot at Zishou Temple was vacant, and Zhang extended every courtesy to invite her. She thus held an inaugural ceremony at Zishou Temple, offering incense as a successor of Dahui. Her teachings and dialogues were recorded in her discourse records. On the fourteenth day of the seventh month in the sixth year of the Qiandao era (1170), she gathered the assembly, finished reciting a verse, and when they shook her, she had already departed. She was seventy-six years old. Her whole body was buried east of the Military General Mountain in Wuxi. In the intercalary second month of the Gengyin year of the Shaoding era (1230), she was reburied northeast of Huqiu in Pingjiang. A hermitage named "Daben" (Reaching the Root) was established to enshrine and protect her stupa.