高僧傳 13.41

13.41

釋智宗，姓周，建康人。出家止謝寺。博學多聞，尤長轉讀。聲至清而爽快，若乃八關長夕。中宵之後，四眾低昂，睡蛇交至。宗則昇座一轉，梵響干雲。莫不開神暢體，豁然醒悟。大明三年卒，年三十一。

Śramaṇa Zhitong, whose secular surname was Zhou, was a native of Jiankang. Having left home, he resided at Xie Temple. He was erudite and broadly learned, especially excelling in scripture recitation (zhuandu). His voice was exceptionally clear and refreshing. During the long nights of the eight-commandment fast (aṣṭāṅga-poṣadha), after midnight when the fourfold assembly drooped and the serpents of sleep came upon them all, Zhitong would ascend the seat and utter a single turn of chant: the brahma-sound pierced the clouds, and there was none whose spirit was not invigorated and whose body was not relieved, suddenly waking to alertness. He died in the third year of Daming [459 CE] at the age of thirty-one.