佛祖統紀 16.61

16.61

Dharma Master Liyuan was thoroughly versed in the Tripiṭaka and broadly conversant with the Five Classics; his learning was profound and his realization lofty, so the world called him 'Yuan the Canon of Teachings.' Early on, he transmitted the Dao of Dongling, propagating the Dharma at Yangjian. He gathered a multitude of three hundred and daily engaged in lecturing and expounding; his mastery of the sūtras and treatises was beyond fathomable measure. From this, later students mostly came to value wide-ranging dialectics. (In this fascicle, of the thirty-five persons, the basic records of seventeen persons are lost.)