苏杭法会重重

癸巳一百一十四岁。在玉佛寺。正月初九日。起禅七两个后。杭州佛教团体派杜伟来请。赴杭主持法会。住静慈寺。皈依者数千。又应妙真之请。赴苏州举行法会毕。游虎邱。礼绍隆祖塔。见已毁。发起令人重建之。以重名胜。

宣化偈曰：

赴杭事毕至姑苏。法会重重不休休。
虎邱再礼绍祖塔。毁而复兴绪千秋。
　

Hosting Dharma Assemblies at Su Chou and Hang Chou one after another

In 1953, at one-hundred-and-fourteen years of age, the Master began a two-week meditation session on the ninth day of the first lunar month at Yu Fo (Jade Buddha) Monastery. Upon its conclusion, the Hang Chou Buddhist Group sent Tu Wei to invite the Master to go to Hang Chou and take charge of a Dharma assembly. He accepted and stayed at Ching Tzu (Pure Kindness) Monastery, where several thousand people took refuge. Again, the Master responded to a request by Dharma Master Miao Chen (Wonderful Truth) that he hold a Dharma assembly. When it was over, the Master proceeded to Hu Ch'iu (Tiger Mountain), and bowed to the stupa of Patriarch Shao Lung. Seeing that it had been desecrated, he saw to its reconstruction, and it again became a famous site.

The gatha says:
When affairs in Hang Chou were completed the Master went to Ku Su,
Conducting Dharma assemblies one after another, never stopping to rest.
At Hu Ch'iu he once again bowed to the Stupa of Patriach Shao Lung
　(Propagate and Glorify).
It had been destroyed, hut he now rebuilt it to last for a thousand seasons.