宋高僧傳 26.29

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釋懷玉，姓許，并州人也。少而警利，日覽千言，早露鋒芒，逈拔儕類。及其長也，戒節踰峻，梵場龜鑑。志在修葺，無間彼此——夏墟寺宇，經有闕而必補，像有凋而遍修。三任紀綱，特有崇建。仍校讎大藏經二十餘本，祁寒盛暑，不廢晨暮。增飾淨土院，興事任力，轉加殊麗。代宗嘉之，委為灌頂道場主。真言祕訣有所在矣！春秋六十三，卒於本院云。

Shi Huaiyu, surnamed Xu, was a native of Bingzhou. In his youth he was alert and sharp, reading a thousand words a day; he revealed his sharp brilliance early on, far surpassing his peers. When he grew older, his moral discipline became increasingly austere, making him a mirror and model for the monastery. His aspiration lay in restoration and repair, making no distinction between this and that: among the temples across the Xia ruins, wherever scriptures were lacking, he inevitably supplemented them, and wherever images had deteriorated, he fully repaired them. Three times he held administrative office, making notable contributions to construction. Moreover, he collated more than twenty sets of the Tripiṭaka, neglecting neither mornings nor evenings through severe cold and intense heat. He embellished the Pure Land Courtyard, laboring to the limit of his strength to establish endeavors, making it ever more exquisitely splendid. Emperor Daizong commended him and appointed him host of the Abhiṣeka Bodhimaṇḍa. His mantras and secret formulas indeed had their efficacy! He was sixty-three years of age when he passed away in his own courtyard.