高僧傳 8.7

8.7

釋道慧，姓王，餘姚人，寓居建鄴。十一出家，為僧遠弟子，止靈曜寺。至年十四，讀廬山《慧遠集》，迺慨然歎息，恨有生之晚，遂與友人智順泝流千里，觀遠遺迹，於是憩廬山西寺，涉歷三年，更還京邑。時王或辯「三相」義，大聚學僧。慧時年十七，便發問數番，言語玄微，詮牒有次。眾咸奇之。

Shi Daohui was surnamed Wang, a native of Yuyao, residing in Jianye. At the age of eleven he left household life as a disciple of Sengyuan, staying at Lingyao Temple. When he reached fourteen, he read the *Collected Works of Huiyuan* of Mount Lu; thereupon he sighed deeply with regret that he had been born too late, and consequently journeyed upstream a thousand li with his friend Zhishun to observe the traces left by Huiyuan. He then rested at the West Temple of Mount Lu, and after three years had passed, he returned to the capital. At that time Wang Huo was debating the meaning of the 'three characteristics' and held a great gathering of doctrinal monks. Daohui was seventeen years old at the time and posed several rounds of questions; his speech was profound and subtle, and his textual citations were well ordered. The assembly all marveled at him.