高僧傳 8.43

8.43

後有西域法師僧伽跋摩弘贊禪律，來遊宋境。義乃令基入室供事。年滿二十，度蔡州受戒。跋摩謂基曰：「汝當道王江東，不須久留京邑。」於是四五年中，遊歷講肆，備訪眾師。善《小品》、《法華》、《思益》、《維摩》、《金剛波若》、《勝鬘》等經。皆思探玄賾，鑒勜幽凝。提章比句，麗溢終古。

Later, the Western Regions Dharma master Saṃghavarman, who widely propagated dhyāna and vinaya, came to travel in the Song territory. Yi then instructed Ji to enter his chamber and serve him. Having reached the age of twenty, he went to Caizhou to receive the full precepts. Varman said to Ji: 'You are destined to rule the Dao in the region east of the Yangtze; you need not linger long in the capital.' Thereupon, over the course of four or five years, he traveled among the lecture assemblies, visiting all the various masters. He was skilled in such scriptures as the Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā (Xiaopin), Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, Viśeṣacintibrahmaparipṛcchā, Vimalakīrtinirdeśa, Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā, and Śrīmālādevī-siṃhanāda. In all of them, he deeply contemplated their abstruse subtleties and clearly illuminated their hidden obscurities. In citing passages and pairing phrases, his eloquence was unmatched throughout the ages.