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26.84

釋辯寂。徐州人。少以慧學播名汎浪人世遊講為業。末在齊都。專攻大論及阿毘曇心。未越周年粗得通解。會武平末歲。國破道亡。南適江陰復師三論。神氣所屬鏡其新理。開皇更始復返舊鄉。桑梓仍存友朋殂落。西入京室。復尋昔論龍樹之風。復由光遠仁壽置塔。勅召送于本州流溝寺。及初達也舍利塔所忽見異光。照寺北嶺及以南山。朗同朝日。又於石佛山內採石為函。磨飾纔了彩文間發。彪炳光現。山海禽狩仙人等像備出其中。雖復圖取。十不呈一。晚綜前業演散京華。福利所兼俱充寺府。不測其終。

Śramaṇa Bianji was a native of Xuzhou. In his youth his reputation was spread abroad through his learning in wisdom; drifting on the waves of the human world, he took wandering and lecturing as his vocation. In his later years in the capital of the Northern Qi, he devoted himself to the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa and the Abhidharmahṛdaya; before a year had elapsed, he had roughly attained a comprehensive understanding. Just then, in the final years of the Wuping era, the state fell and the Way perished; he travelled south to Jiangyin, where he studied again under masters of the Sanlun school, his mental vitality reflecting its new principles. At the beginning of the Kaihuang era, he returned to his old hometown; his native place remained, but his friends had passed away. He went west into the capital to seek out the ancient treatises in the style of Nāgārjuna. Later, because his fame extended far, during the Renshou era when stupas were established, an imperial decree summoned him to escort relics to Liugou Temple in his native prefecture. When he first arrived, an extraordinary light suddenly appeared at the site of the relic stupa, illuminating the northern ridge and southern hills of the temple, bright as the morning sun. Furthermore, they quarried stone within Shifo Mountain to make the casket; as soon as the polishing was finished, colourful patterns broke out between the grain, splendid and luminous; images of mountains, seas, birds, beasts, and immortals appeared complete within it, yet even if one tried to copy them in drawing, not one in ten could be captured. In his later years he integrated his former pursuits and propagated them in the capital, and the merit and profits combined were supplied to the monastic estate. The circumstances of his end are unknown.