弘贊法華傳 2.33

2.33

右。南齊司徒竟陵王文宣公蕭子良者。崇仰釋宗。深達至教。注釋經論。抄略詞理。掩邪道而闢正津。弘一乘而揚七眾。世稱筆海。時號智山。或通夢於獨尊。諡天王之嘉稱。或宣授於經唄。傳神度之英規。其德難詳。輒從蓋闕。抄略前經。以備在左右。

The above: Xiao Ziliang, Prince of Jingling and Duke Wenxuan, who served as Minister of Education under the Southern Qi, revered the Śākya school and deeply penetrated the ultimate teaching. He annotated sūtras and treatises and excerpted their phrasing and doctrines, barring heterodox paths to open the correct ford, and propagating the One Vehicle while exalting the seven assemblies. The world called him an ocean of the brush, and his contemporaries styled him a mountain of wisdom. Sometimes he communicated through dreams with the Solitary Honoured One, being given the fine posthumous title of Heavenly King; at other times he expounded and transmitted sūtras and chants, passing down eminent regulations of marvelous measure. His virtues are difficult to recount in detail, so we readily pass over them here. He excerpted the aforementioned sūtras to keep them by his side.