“When Great Master ‘WiseOne’ [Zhiyi] went to pay his respects, Great Master [Hui] Si, [the second Tiantai patriarch], said to him, ‘Oh, so you have come. We listened to the Dharma Flower Sutra together on Vulture Peak at the time of Śākyamuni Buddha.’ As soon as Great Master ‘Wise One’ heard that, he realized, ‘Yes, that’s right. We did investigate the Dharma Flower Sutra together at the time of Śākyamuni Buddha.’

“Afterwards, Great Master ‘Wise One’ had a state. He was reading the Dharma Flower Sutra and reached the section in which Medicine King Bodhisattva burns his body as an offering to the Buddha, the passage that reads: ‘This is true vigor. This is called a true offering of Dharma. ’He suddenly entered samadhi, right while reading the text, and was able to see the Dharma Flower Assembly on Vulture Peak with Śākyamuni Buddha still speaking the Dharma and the multitudes of Bodhisattvas, Sound Hearers , and those of the Eightfold Division listening to the Dharma Flower Sutra.” (FAS-PII(2) 3)

智顗 [法師]