智愷

「智愷。俗姓曹氏。住楊都寺。」〔T50n2060 0431b02〕其人無本傳，事見《續高僧傳》法泰傳之附。與法泰等前後異發，同往嶺表奉祈真諦——本編所讀之真諦譯業，其在嶺南之得成，靠的正是這一批從楊都遠去的人。

"Zhikai, of lay surname Cao, resided at a monastery in Yangdu" 〔T50n2060 0431b02〕. He has no life of his own; what is known stands appended to Fatai's in the Further Biographies. With Fatai and the others, setting out at different times, he went to the far south to seek out Paramārtha — and it is on this company of men who travelled from Yangdu that the southern portion of Paramārtha's translating, which this edition reads, depended.

其役是筆受，其功在速與全：「乃對翻攝論。躬受其文。七月之中文疏並了。都合二十五卷。」〔T50n2060 0431b04〕「後更對翻俱舍論。十月便了。文疏合數八十三卷。」〔T50n2060 0431b06〕真諦為此有一語：「吾早值子。綴緝經論絓是前翻。不應缺少今譯兩論詞理圓備。吾無恨矣。」〔T50n2060 0431b07〕——譯主自言前譯之缺，因得其人而補。本編所據之《攝大乘論釋》與真諦系《俱舍》，其文之所以「詞理圓備」，一半繫於此。

His office was to take the text down, and his merit lay in speed and completeness: "they then rendered the Mahāyānasaṃgraha in turn, he receiving the text from the master's own mouth; within seven months both text and commentary were finished, twenty-five fascicles in all" 〔T50n2060 0431b04〕. "Afterwards they rendered the Abhidharmakośa in turn; in ten months it was done, text and commentary together numbering eighty-three fascicles" 〔T50n2060 0431b06〕. Paramārtha had a word for it: "had I met you sooner, the sūtras and treatises compiled in my earlier translations would want nothing. Now that these two treatises are rendered complete in wording and sense, I have no regret" 〔T50n2060 0431b07〕 — the translator naming the deficiency of his own earlier work and saying this man had repaired it. That the texts this edition draws on are "complete in wording and sense" rests half on him.

其終在講席上：「講至業品疏第九卷。文猶未盡。」〔T50n2060 0431b14〕八月二十日遘疾，自省不救，索紙題詩，因放筆，「與諸名德握手語別。端坐儼思奄然而卒。春秋五十有一。即光大二年也。」〔T50n2060 0431b20〕光大二年＝568，生年 518 由此逆推。「及愷之云亡。諦撫膺哀慟。」〔T50n2060 0431c10〕本編所取其文一篇：〈大乘起信論序〉〔T32n1666〕，卷端自署「揚州僧智愷作」——傳中或作「慧愷」，本檔依卷端立名，二形並錄不判。

His end came in the lecturer's seat: "lecturing on the Kośa he had reached the ninth fascicle of the commentary on the chapter on karma, and the text was not yet done" 〔T50n2060 0431b14〕. On the twentieth day of the eighth month he fell ill and knew he would not recover; he called for paper and wrote a poem, and then, laying down the brush, "he clasped hands in farewell with the assembled worthies, sat upright in composed thought, and quietly died, in his fifty-first year — the second year of Guangda" 〔T50n2060 0431b20〕. Guangda 2 is 568, and the birth year 518 is reckoned back from that. "At Zhikai's death, Paramārtha beat his breast in grief" 〔T50n2060 0431c10〕. One piece of his writing is taken up in this edition: the Preface to the Awakening of Faith 〔T32n1666〕, headed in his own hand "written by the monk Zhikai of Yangzhou" — the biography sometimes gives his name as Huikai, and this file takes its form from the scroll-head, recording both without adjudicating.