宋高僧傳 29.27

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釋道邃，不知何許人也。幽識遠晤，執志有恒，懸解真宗，不由邪術。末傳隋智者教道，素得玄微。荊溪之門，杳難窺望。大曆中湛然師委付《止觀輔行記》，得以敷揚，若神驥之可以致遠也。于時同門元浩逈知畏服，不能爭長矣。貞元二十一年，日本國沙門最澄者，亦東夷卉服中，剛決明敏僧也。泛溟涬，達江東，慕天台之法門，求顗師之禪決。屬邃講訓，委曲指教，澄得旨矣。乃盡繕寫一行教法東歸。慮其或問從何而聞，得誰所印？俾防疑誤，乃造邦伯作援證焉。時台州刺史陸淳判云：「最澄闍梨，形雖異域，性實同源，特稟生知，觸類玄解。遠傳天台教旨，又遇龍象邃公，總萬行於一心，了殊塗於三觀，親承祕密，理絕名言。猶慮他方學徒未能信受，所請印記，安可不任為憑云。」澄泛海到國，齎教法指一山為天台，號一寺為國清，風行電照，斯教大行。倭僧遙尊邃為祖師。後終于住寺焉。

Shi Daosui; it is not known where he was from. He had deep insight and far-reaching discernment, held his resolve with constancy, and intuitively understood the true lineage without relying on deviant arts. A later successor to the teaching of Master Zhiyi of the Sui, he was inherently conversant with its subtle depths. At the gate of Jingxi [Zhanran], the depths were difficult to peer into. During the Dali era, Master Zhanran entrusted him with the *Zhiguan fuxing ji* so that he might expound and propagate it, just as a divine steed can cover great distances. At that time, his fellow disciple Yuanhao was thoroughly awed and humbled, unable to compete for precedence. In the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan, the Japanese monk Saichō—who was also a resolute, intelligent, and sharp-witted monk from among the grass-clad people of the Eastern Barbarians—crossed the boundless ocean and reached Jiangdong. Yearning for the Dharma gate of Tiantai, he sought Master Zhiyi’s resolutions on dhyāna. It happened that Daosui was lecturing and instructing; he guided and taught him in detail, and Saichō attained the doctrine. He then made complete copies of the doctrinal teachings of the single lineage to return east. Concerned that people might ask from whom he had heard them and by whom he was sealed—in order to guard against doubts and errors—he approached the prefectural governor for verification. Lu Chun, Prefect of Taizhou at the time, made the judgment: “Although Ācārya Saichō is outwardly from an alien land, his nature is in truth of the same source. Specially endowed with innate knowledge, he reaches abstruse understanding at every contact. Having come from afar to transmit the Tiantai teachings, he also encountered Master Sui, an elephant and dragon, who gathers the ten thousand practices into the single mind and comprehends the disparate paths in the Three Contemplations. Having personally received the esoteric [teachings], the principle transcends names and words. Still concerned that scholars in other lands might not believe and accept them, how could the seal of authorization he requested not be granted as proof?” Saichō sailed across the sea to his homeland, took the teachings, designated a mountain as Tiantai [Hiei], and named a temple Guoqing [Enryaku-ji]; like wind moving and lightning shining, this teaching was widely practiced. The Japanese monks from afar honored Daosui as an ancestral master. Later he passed away at his home temple.