高僧傳 8.19

8.19

釋法瑗，姓辛，隴西人，辛毘之後。長兄源明，仕偽魏為大尚書。第二兄法愛，亦為沙門。解經論兼數術，為芮芮國師，俸以三千戶。瑗幼而闊達，倜儻殊群，路見貧寒，輒脫衣為惠。初出家，事梁州沙門竺慧開。開懿德通神，時人謂得初果。開謂瑗曰：「汝情悟若此，必能綱總末化，宜競力博聞，無得獨善。」於是辭開遊學，經涉燕、趙去來鄴、洛。值胡寇縱橫，關、隴鼎沸，瑗冐險履危，學業無怠。

Shi Fayuan, surnamed Xin, was a man of Longxi and a descendant of Xin Pi. His eldest brother, Yuanming, served the northern Wei as Grand Minister of the Masters of Writing. His second brother, Fa'ai, was also a śramaṇa, versed in scriptures and treatises as well as numerology and mantic arts; he served as the national preceptor of Rouran and was granted an income from three thousand households. Yuan was broad-minded from youth, unconventional and distinguished above the crowd; whenever he saw the poor and cold on the road, he would strip off his clothes to give them. When he first left home, he served the śramaṇa Zhu Huikai of Liangzhou. Kai's virtue was divine and efficacious, and people of the time said he had attained the first fruit. Kai said to Yuan: "With your emotional insight, you will surely be able to guide and unify the latter-day teaching; you should strive with effort to become broadly learned, and not just cultivate personal goodness." Thereupon, Yuan took leave of Kai to travel and study, journeying through Yan and Zhao, and passing back and forth through Ye and Luoyang. Encountering the rampant incursions of barbarian forces and the turmoil across Guan and Long, Yuan braved perils and walked through dangers, never neglecting his studies.