佛祖統紀 23.26

23.26

開皇十年（庚戌是年陳亡始稱正統盡二十一年）
開皇十一年。晉王總管揚州。迎顗禪師
於大聽事。設千僧齋授菩薩戒。師名
晉王為總持王。上師號稱智者。
開皇十二年。智者禪師於荊州當陽玉泉
山為關王父子授戒。
開皇十三年。智者禪師。於玉泉說法華
玄義。章安預聽。
開皇十四年。智者禪師。於玉泉說摩訶
止觀。章安預聽。是年過岳陽為刺史
王宣武授大乘戒法。為學士曇捷等
講金光明經。
開皇十五年七月。智者禪師。至揚州禪眾
寺。以所著淨名義疏。奉上晉王。九月
辭歸天台。
開皇十七年九月。智者禪師。於天台佛隴
為諸弟子口授觀心論。十一月。於石
城寺為弟子說十如。四不生。十法界。
三觀。四無量心。四悉檀。四諦。十二因
緣。六波羅密。一一法門。是月二十四日。
示寂於石城彌勒石佛像前。
仁壽元年（辛酉盡四年）

Kaihuang, 10th year (gengxu; in this year Chen fell and [Sui] began to be termed the orthodox lineage, continuing for 21 years).
In the eleventh year of Kaihuang, the Prince of Jin, who was Commander-in-Chief of Yangzhou, welcomed Chan Master Yi to the Great Hall, held a vegetarian feast for a thousand monks, and received the bodhisattva precepts. The Master named the Prince of Jin 'Prince Zongchi' (Dhāraṇī Prince), and [the prince] presented the Master with the title 'Zhizhe' (Wise One).
In the twelfth year of Kaihuang, Chan Master Zhizhe conferred the precepts on Lord Guan and his son at Mount Yuquan in Dangyang, Jingzhou.
In the thirteenth year of Kaihuang, Chan Master Zhizhe expounded the Profound Meaning of the Lotus at Yuquan; Zhāng'ān attended and listened.
In the fourteenth year of Kaihuang, Chan Master Zhizhe expounded the Mohe zhiguan at Yuquan; Zhāng'ān attended and listened. In this year, passing through Yueyang, he conferred the Mahāyāna precepts on Regional Inspector Wang Xuanwu, and expounded the Golden Light Sūtra for the scholar Tanjie and others.
In the seventh month of the fifteenth year of Kaihuang, Chan Master Zhizhe arrived at Chanzhong Monastery in Yangzhou and presented his authored Subcommentary on the Meaning of the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa to the Prince of Jin. In the ninth month, he took his leave and returned to Tiantai.
In the ninth month of the seventeenth year of Kaihuang, Chan Master Zhizhe orally transmitted the Treatise on Contemplating the Mind to his disciples at Folong on Tiantai. In the eleventh month, at Shicheng Monastery, he expounded for his disciples the ten suchnesses, the four kinds of non-arising, the ten dharma realms, the three contemplations, the four immeasurables, the four siddhāntas, the four noble truths, the twelve links of dependent origination, and the six pāramitās, teaching each dharma gate one by one. On the twenty-fourth day of that month, he passed into tranquility in front of the stone Maitreya Buddha statue at Shicheng.
Renshou, 1st year (xinyou, continuing for 4 years)