高僧傳 13.40

13.40

釋道慧，姓張，尋陽柴桑人。年二十四出家，止廬山寺。素行清貞，博涉經典。特稟自然之聲，故偏好轉讀。發響含奇，製無定准，條章折句，綺麗分明。後出都，止安樂寺，轉讀之名，大盛京邑。晚移朱方竹林寺，誦經數萬言。每夕諷詠，輒聞闇中，有彈指唱薩之聲。宋大明二年卒，年五十一。

Shi Daohui, surnamed Zhang, was a man from Chaisang in Xunyang. He left home at the age of twenty-four and resided at Lushan Temple. His conduct was consistently pure and upright, and he was broadly versed in the scriptures. Uniquely endowed with a natural voice, he had a special fondness for cantillating sūtras. When raising his voice, it contained unusual qualities, following no fixed rules, dividing sections and parsing phrases with exquisite clarity. Later, he came to the capital and resided at Anle Temple; his fame for cantillation flourished greatly in the imperial city. In his later years, he moved to Zhulin Temple in Zhufang, reciting tens of thousands of words of sūtras. Every evening when he chanted, the sound of snapping fingers and chanting 'Sādhu' would be heard in the dark. He died in the second year of the Daming era of the Song at the age of fifty-one.