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釋慧峯。不知何人。住栖霞寺。聽詮公三論。深悟其旨。最為得意。名價遐布眾所推美。詮每云。峯之達解思力。吾不及也。以吾年老且復相依。峯遊心正理。身範律儀。攝靜松林日惟一食。衣服麁素略無寸積。顧步鏘鏘雅有風彩。未出都偏弘十誦讚誘前修。聽者如市。有問云。今學大乘。如何講律。峯云。此致非汝所知。豈學正法而大小相乖乎。以陳天嘉年卒。春秋六十。臨終告弟智琨曰。吾去處懸遠。非汝所知。終後屈一指。將之雖伸還屈。時議謂證初果。

Shi Huifeng, of unknown origins, lived at Qixia Temple. He listened to Master Quan's lectures on the Three Treatises (Mādhymaka), profoundly comprehending their tenets and grasping their ideas better than anyone else. His reputation spread far and wide, and he was praised and esteemed by the assembly. Master Quan often said: 'In the depth of understanding and reflective power, I cannot match Feng. Because of my old age, we may rely on each other for now.' Feng turned his mind toward the correct principle, while modeling his conduct upon the Vinaya rules. He withdrew in tranquility to the pine groves, eating only one meal a day. His garments were coarse and plain, and he possessed not an inch of accumulated property. His steps were stately and dignified, endowed with refined grace and bearing. Before leaving the capital, he concentrated on propagating the Ten-Recitation Vinaya (Sarvāstivāda-vinaya), praising and guiding former practices, so that his listeners gathered like a marketplace. Someone asked: 'Nowadays you study the Mahāyāna; why do you preach the Vinaya?' Feng said: 'This principle is not something you know. How could studying the true Dharma cause the Greater and Lesser [Vehicles] to oppose each other?' He passed away in the Tianjia era of the Chen dynasty, at the age of sixty. Approaching death, he told his younger fellow-monk Zhikun: 'The place to which I am going is distant, not something you know.' After his death, he bent one finger; when someone tried to straighten it, it curled back again. Those discussing it at the time thought he had attained the first fruit [of srotāpanna].