高僧傳 5.31

5.31

Later, he passed away in the temple at the age of over seventy. Zhu Fatai wrote in a letter to Dao'an: "Whenever I recall the Venerable Fu, our associations seem like yesterday, yet years have suddenly passed since his death. On days of pure conversation, I have never failed to think of him. I longed to review and comment on his excellence together with you, but who could have expected that in a single morning he would be gone forever to another world? So deep is my sorrow and regret—how could I banish such feelings? What he attained in doctrinal principles and his labor in poring over texts can truly hardly be conceived." Fatai's letters to Dao'an frequently recounted Fu's interpretations, but now when we search for them, his writings have been lost; that they have fallen into oblivion is truly lamentable.