宋高僧傳 14.19

14.19

釋秀公者，齊安人也。髫年天然有離俗之意焉。既丁荼蓼，便往蜀郡，禮興律師，諷誦經典，易若溫尋。又依之進具，果通達毘尼，乃為興公傳律上足弟子歟！如是四載，入長安，造宣律師門，為依止之客。勤以忘勞，涉十六年，不離函丈。窮幽諸部，陶練數家，將首疏為宗本，然向黃州報所生地。次往安陸，大揚講訓。聲美所聞，諸王牧守攸共遵承正化，緇徒咸摹細行。有貞固律師居於上席；解冠諸生最顯清名；餘皆後殿。其諸成業，不可勝算。春秋七十餘，卒於十力寺本房焉。

Śramaṇa Xiu was a native of Qi'an. In his childhood, he naturally had the inclination to leave the secular world. After suffering the loss of his parents, he immediately went to the commandery of Shu to pay respects to Vinaya Master Xing; reciting the scriptures was as easy for him as reviewing what he already knew. He also relied on him to advance to full ordination, and indeed penetrated the vinaya, becoming Master Xing's foremost disciple in transmitting the precepts! After four years like this, he entered Chang'an and approached the gate of Vinaya Master Xuan, becoming his resident disciple. Working with diligence and forgetting weariness, he passed sixteen years without leaving his master's presence. He plumbed the depths of various vinaya sections and refined the interpretations of several lineages, taking the First Commentary as his primary foundation, and then headed toward Huangzhou to repay his birthplace. Next he traveled to Anlu, greatly propagating lectures and instructions. His fine reputation was widely heard; princes, governors, and prefects all united to adhere to his correct teachings, and the monastic community all modeled their refined deportment on him. Vinaya Master Zhengu occupied the upper seat; his understanding surpassed that of all other students, his pure name was the most prominent, and all the rest sat behind him. The undertakings Xiu achieved were beyond calculation. At the age of over seventy, he passed away in his own chamber at Shili Temple.