陈上师行状短颂
林钰堂
文殊降诞湘攸城 稚年诗书早扬名 观音化现嘉偶成 齐眉诵经鬼跪听
由显入密满加行 比肩中年齐开顶 岩居献花及天龙 船居一碧印江明
孤身上道万里程 为求密隐入藏中 卅七上师之恩宠 五百灌顶得传承
七派大法尽受领 恩海遥波济群生 闭关印北廿五冬 茅蓬仰瞻圣母峰
蒲团七破守孤灯 胜乐三身皆亲证 知恩禅海立塔灯 事印大印广推恩
中黄督脊分渭泾 印道耶儒细检评 佛教禅定示途径 光明法藏尽囊倾
英着百种六洲赠 短笛嫋嫋劝世醒 文佛咐嘱龙跪请 飞临美洲大法弘
放生龟鸟卅万命 超幽环球千万灵 火供二百致感应 解救众生诸苦情
献瓶百半入龙宫 为众奔波忘己宁 五经四海讲会通 喂鸽风雨兴晨钟
曲肱法界任论衡 乐空不二怀抱中 诗笺翩翩起舞龙 佛像栩栩分众供
立五轮塔放彩虹 敲幽冥钟慰幽灵 大愿欲建佛坛城 导致世界真和平
莲形吉地幸购成 坛场起建方待兴 众生罪苦师代承 示现无常与疾病
临终五会天乐迎 荼毗舍利雨如虹 尊塔长镇宝岛宁 法身恩光普照临
一九八八年五月廿一日
养和斋 于加州
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Praise to the Dharma Life of Guru Chen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yutang Lin"
To: "Dharma Friends"
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:00 PM
Subject: Two Long Poems in Calligraphy_两首长诗翰墨：世界最高阿弥陀佛像礼赞、陈上师行状短颂
They are attached.
它们全附呈，
One of them took three pages.
它们之中有一个共三页。
Attain Enlightenment Soon!
祝早成佛！
Yutang
钰堂
Praise to the Dharma Life of Guru Chen
Yutang Lin
In You County of Hunan, A reincarnation of Manjusri born;
In his youth, as a poet, already quite well-known;
Married to a lady, a reincarnation of Avalokitesvara;
Together they recited Sutras, and ghosts gathered to listen.
Stepping from Sutras into Tantras, he completed the foundations;
At middle-age, both of them attained opening of the top aperture.
Meditated in caves, Flower Offering and Sky Dragon, for years;
Retreated on a boat floating down a river and gained realization.
Alone on the path, traveling for thousands of miles,
To seek out the Tantric secrets he went to Tibet and Xi Kang.
Favored by thirty-seven Gurus with essence of teachings,
And received great initiations of five hundred deities and more.
The highest teachings of seven schools were fully transmitted,
Written down in Chinese to spread the waves of Grace Ocean.
Retreated in a hermitage by himself for twenty-five years;
From Kalimpong in India, he looked up to Mount Everest.
Year after year of meditation in solitude worn out seven mats;
The trinity of Great Pleasure Vajra's kayas was realized.
With appreciation, he erected the Lighthouse in the Ocean of Chan;
Commenting on Karma and Maha Mudras, he propagated the blessings.
The central channel distinguished from Taoist and spinal cord;
Hinduism, Taoism, Christian and Confucian carefully sorted.
Buddhist Meditation maps the fields and the routes to Enlightenment;
Dharma Treasures of Pure Light were poured out for revelation.
Over one hundred works in English bestowed on six continents;
The Flute resounded lingering tunes to awaken the worldly.
Under Sakyamuni's command and beseeched by the Dragon King,
Flew to America to propagate the great wondrous Dharma.
Over three hundred thousand turtles, pigeons and other beings set free;
Millions of beings all over the world salvaged through Powa.
Two hundred fire pujas performed, yielding wondrous inspirations
To relieve sentient beings from all kinds of suffering.
Into the Dragon palace hundred and fifty vases were offered;
Repeating the long rides for years discounted his own ease.
Five Sutras of Pureland were unified through lectures overseas;
Rainy or windy, awoke early daily by alarm clock to feed pigeons.
Bending elbows to write about varieties in the Dharmadhatu,
Or to embrace and enjoy the oneness of Sunyata and Joy.
Poems written in calligraphy danced on sheets like dragons;
Lifelike images of Buddhas freely distributed for worshipping.
Five Wheel Pagoda erected and shone forth rainbow lights;
Bell for pacifying hell beings made and rung to reduce their suffering.
Great Bodhicitta to ensure eternal peace on Earth and in all beings
Led to the wish to build Adi Buddha Mandala for practices in retreat.
Lotus-shape auspicious land fortunately secured in hand;
Constructions for the Mandala were about to begin.
Sins and suffering of sentient beings were undertaken by the teacher
Who exhibited signs of illness and impermanence.
Upon departure heavenly music of Five-variation Chanting heard;
After cremation rainbow-colored sariras were found in abundance.
Holy pagoda stands on Formosa to bless it with peace and prosperity;
Compassionate lights of Dharmadhatu shines equally upon everyone!
Written in Chinese: May 21, 1988
Translated: August 4, 1999
El Cerrito, California
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