高僧傳 7.20

7.20

Yan's disciple Fazhi possessed extraordinary intelligence from his youth. At the age of twenty-four, he went to Jiangling and happened upon Master Ya giving a lecture; he engaged in several rounds of debate with him, leaving Ya with nowhere to find an explanation. Ya looked around at the fourfold assembly and said: "This young fellow has splendid literary talent!" Zhi smiled and said: "And so the 'Altered Feng' and 'Altered Ya' were composed!" Thereupon his renown spread throughout Chu and Ying, and his praise reached the Capital and Wu. He was skilled in the Tattvasiddhi-śāstra and the larger and smaller Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras.