佛祖統紀 23.26
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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)
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