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He was by nature alert and discerning, and held himself in rather high regard; in his striving to penetrate the profound, he did not mingle casually with his peers. Observing the spread of the Way in the east, he arrived at the capital, Ye. In appearance, he mingled with white-robed laymen, but in his speech, he exalted the black robes of the monastics. Fashang, the Controller-in-Chief of Monks under the Qi, praised his spiritual intelligence and spoke with him all morning. Deeply appreciating his firm resolve, Fashang received him and shaved his head, daily bestowing on him profound and esoteric teachings and encouraging him to outshine the peers of his time. He was then allowed to wander and study broadly. Fayuan's courageous thoughts sped like the wind as he visited lecture seats everywhere, seeking the Dharma without weariness and asking about teachings that were novel and rare. Later, looking up to the footsteps of Upāli, he dedicated himself to the Vinayapiṭaka, gathering the Buddha's governance and charting the monastic course. For the four recensions of the Vinayapiṭaka transmitted to the Eastern Xia, he composed doctrinal commentaries for all of them, wonderfully reconciling their similarities and differences. During the height of the Qi dynasty, vinaya followers arose like a whirlwind, each vying to take the lead in the Dharmaguptaka-vinaya tradition. Master Dao'yun first established the general framework, and Master Linghui pruned away minute superfluities. Fayuan, with an integrity like the morning frost, shone uniquely above all the treatises. He crushed objections at the very start of debate, and his lingering authority extinguished opposition thereafter. Consequently, wherever he went to converse and debate, the multitude were struck dumb. He was thus able to establish and refute more than a hundred positions of various schools, and none dared withstand his sharp edge. At the time, because of his towering, unrivaled stature, people called him the 'Vinaya Tiger.' When resolving affairs, he mostly consulted the text to deliberate and confirm the standard. As the consensus of opinion converged upon him, an imperial decree summoned him to serve as the Prior (Sthavira) of the Dazhuangyan and Shiku monasteries. When the imperial Sui received the mandate, he was further ordered by decree to serve as the abbot of the Great Xingguo Monastery in Bingzhou. Repeatedly assuming administrative oversight, he skillfully guided the great assembly, transforming the previous administration so that it was truly splendid. On the twenty-second day of the sixth month of the seventh year of the Kaihuang era, he died at his residence at the age of sixty-four. He was buried west of Bingzhou city, and a pagoda was built to honor his model. Of the vinaya commentaries he authored, only the one on the Dharmaguptaka-vinaya in ten fascicles and the Right and Wrong Excerpts (Shifei chao) in two fascicles survive; the rest are all lost. He had a disciple named Daoxing, whose character was calm and harmonious; he directly received his master's oral instruction. Skillful in intuitive comprehension, he was clear in citing sources, expounding the purport of the commentaries without letting his master's lineage fall into decline. Whenever a lecture dispersed, he personally led the students to circumambulate Fayuan's pagoda to pay homage before returning. At the spring and autumn equinoxes and solstices, this observance was always maintained. Now, at over eighty years of age, he still unfolds the purport of the commentaries, singling out points to resolve hidden difficulties. At that time, there was also a śramaṇa named Daokan who studied under Fayuan. Upholding the teachings and putting them into practice, his academic reputation was the most outstanding. Developing and advancing his initial aspirations, he stood out in propagating and upholding the precepts, and was praised by his contemporaries. However, he was habitually fastidious, revering the text as the supreme authority; if there was the slightest deviation, he would not take part. Therefore, he argued that since the introductory recitation of the Prātimokṣa and the formal announcements lacked canonical prescription, they were uncanonical. Even if he initially followed the assembly, he would afterwards insist on repeating the ritual: going outside the city wall, establishing a simā, and reciting the text anew. This was indeed a strict and unbending rule; it was excessively rigorous and lacked accommodating flexibility. Even down to the present, this lineage has many such impasses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 21.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.23) - [Next: 21.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.25) - [Up: 21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060~en-mt.21.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.21.24) · Pramāṇa