This is a study and transcription of a pagoda-inscription in honour of a Ch'an master named Hui-jian (慧堅 719-792). The inscription was originally erected in the year of 806 A.D. but never referred in historical or Buddhist documents. The inscription was unearthed from modern Xi'an in 1945，and preserved at Beilin 碑林 Museum of Shaanxi Province, But never fully studied by scholars upto the publication of this study. According to this epigraphical text，the master of Ch'an was surnamed Zhu，a native of Chen-zhou. He has met the Great Master of Ch'an named Shen-hui (神會 684-758)，the founder of Ho-Ze (荷澤) School of Ch'an Buddhism. He was ordaind a Fen-chuan，resided at Lo-yang and suffered when the city fell in the hands of An Lu- shan. Hui-jian later moved to Chang-an，the capital of Tang Empire，patronized by two Emperors, viz. Dai-zong and De-zong. He has discoursed the teachings of Ch'an Buddhism before the Emperor and the Princess, ordered to participate the conference deciding the correct doctrine of Buddhism and patriarchship of Ch'an Buddhist lineage. The study consists of five sections：(1) problems related to the inscription：the writer，the calligrapher，the discovery and preservation. (2) The time，life and associates related to Hui-jian. (3) The history and doctrines of Ho-Ze school of Ch'an Buddhism：shenhui as the seventh patriarch of Ch'an school，the meaning of seeing the Nature，the Sudden Enlightenment Followed by Gradual Cultivation, meditation and supernatural powers, on life and death etc. (4) Transcription of the epigraphical text. (5) Conclusion. In the past，the study of Ho-ze school of Ch'an Buddhism regard Shen-hui's ＿Records as the most dependable sources; whileas thewriting of Zong-mi (宗密，780-841) as the important secondary records. However，there are differences between the records and the secondary. It is in this context，that the information recorded in the inscription in very valuable for the study as it stands between Shen-hui and Zong-mi.
