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至宋太始中，被徵出都，講《大法鼓經》。俄而旋于會稽，還紹法化。以《大涅槃》是窮理之教，每留思踟蹰，累加講說。凡結齋會者，無不必請，若值他許，則為移日。後年衰脚疾，不堪外赴，並送食于房，以希冥益。進為性篤好經典，看尋苦至，及年老失明，猶使弟子唱《涅槃經》，旬中一遍。其耽好若此。以宋元徽中卒，春秋九十有四。

In the middle of the Taishi era of the Song, he was summoned to the capital to lecture on the Mahābherīhāraka-sūtra. Soon after, he returned to Kuaiji to resume the propagation of the Dharma. Considering the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra to be the teaching that exhausts ultimate principle, he constantly lingered in contemplation over it, lecturing on it repeatedly. Whenever someone convened a fasting-assembly, they never failed to invite him; if he had already accepted another, they would shift the day for him. In later years, enfeebled by age and afflicted with foot ailments, he was unable to travel outside, so they would deliver food to his room hoping for unseen benefit. Chaojin was by nature intensely devoted to the scriptures, studying them with consummate earnestness; even when he lost his sight in old age, he still had his disciples recite the Nirvāṇa-sūtra aloud, once every ten days. Such was his devotion. He died during the Yuanhui era of the Song, at the age of ninety-four.