佛祖統紀 13.30

13.30

法師會賢。早為南屏高弟。初弘教於華亭超果。學者如市。將行化外邑。必得老成貳講者。乃擊鼓集眾。其人對眾答曰。必欲代講於老師。凡所說義許悉破之。師忻然曰。幸蒙破立祖道之光也。

Dharma Master Huixian was an early and eminent disciple of Nanping. Initially he propagated the teachings at Chaoguo in Huating, where students gathered like a market. Whenever he was about to travel to teach in other districts, he would invariably find a mature assistant lecturer. He then struck the drum to assemble the community. That person answered before the assembly, “If I am truly to lecture on behalf of the venerable master, I must be permitted to refute all the principles you have expounded.” The Master said joyfully, “How fortunate that through refutation, the ancestral path may be illuminated!”