止觀輔行傳弘決 1.32

1.32

"The Dharma was transmitted to Rāhulata." Earlier, a non-Buddhist had composed a book of names of ghosts, which was obscure and difficult to comprehend. Nāgārjuna understood it upon a single reading; when he explained it twice to Deva, Deva understood it; and when he analyzed it more broadly for Rāhulata, Rāhulata finally understood it. The non-Buddhist sighed: "The spiritual wisdom of the Śākya śramaṇas is like this: reading my book, it was as if they already knew it of old!"