佛祖統紀 17.28

17.28

法師戒應。四明人。自號雪堂。才識英敏襟度豁然。久學南湖為時偉望。郡以南湖請圓辯。師奉命之東掖。以禮奉迎。及圓辯至大開法施。妙旨雄談唯師可企。一日叩函丈。問指要中未了義。圓辯曰。汝能背誦。吾將為說。數日誦通。暨上請。辯曰。此中為汝說得徹也。師忽有省。自是機辯奮發莫有敵者。出主白蓮。學徒雲會。寧海歲有大會。請師一月講經。道俗萬眾仰聽肅肅。鴻音一震莫不警寤。一日無疾。別眾歸寢。右脇而亡。塔全身於寺山之靈源。

Dharma Master Jieying was a native of Siming, who called himself Xuetang. His talents and discernment were brilliant and quick, and his magnanimity was vast and open. Having studied for a long time at Nanhu, he enjoyed a towering reputation in his day. When the prefecture invited Yuanbian to Nanhu, the master received the directive and went to Dongye to welcome him respectfully with ritual propriety. When Yuanbian arrived and widely bestowed the gift of Dharma, only the master could match his wondrous teachings and magnificent discourses. One day he knocked at the abbot's quarters and asked about the unresolved meanings in the Zhiyao. Yuanbian said, 'If you can recite it from memory, I will explain it for you.' Within a few days he had recited it through thoroughly, and when he went up to request [instruction], Bian said, 'Within this, it has already been thoroughly explained for you!' The master suddenly had an awakening. From then on, his incisive eloquence burst forth so vigorously that none could rival him. He went forth to preside over Bailian, and students gathered like clouds. Every year in Ninghai there was a great assembly, and they invited the master to lecture on the sūtras for a month. A gathering of ten thousand monastics and laypeople listened reverently in solemn silence; as soon as his magnificent voice thundered forth, none failed to be startled into awakening. One day, without any illness, he bade farewell to the assembly, returned to his sleeping quarters, and passed away lying on his right side. His whole body was stupa-enshrined at Lingyuan on the monastery mountain.