弘贊法華傳 7.24

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釋智越。姓鄭氏。南陽人也。少出家。早離塵俗。後到金陵。便值智者。北面投誠。授以禪法。深達五門。窮通六妙。誦法華經。萬有餘遍。瓶水自盈。經之力也。學徒雖眾。最居稱首。臨海露山精舍。巨有靈異。智者每令影響。晦跡已後。台山一眾。斯焉是屬。大業十二年十一月二十三日。寢疾經旬。右脇而卒。春秋七十四。臨終之日。山崩地動。境內道俗。咸所見聞。

Shi Zhiyue, surnamed Zheng, was a native of Nanyang. He left home in his youth and parted early from defilements and secular life. Later, arriving in Jinling, he met Zhizhe. Turning north in respect, he offered his sincere devotion, and Zhizhe bestowed upon him the methods of meditation. He deeply penetrated the five gates and thoroughly mastered the six wondrous aspects. He recited the Lotus Sūtra more than ten thousand times; the water in his pitcher would fill of itself, which was the power of the sūtra. Although the students were numerous, he was counted as the foremost among them. At the Lu Shan Vihāra in Linhai, there were great spiritual wonders; Zhizhe often had him serve as his respondent. After Zhizhe concealed his traces [passed away], the entire assembly of Mount Tiantai turned to him. On the twenty-third day of the eleventh month in the twelfth year of the Daye reign era (616 CE), he took to his bed with an illness for ten days, and passed away lying on his right side at the age of seventy-four. On the day of his demise, the mountains collapsed and the earth quaked, seen and heard by all the clergy and laity in the region.