Hyeongak玄恪
1Hyeongak — Called a lotus in the fire, he passed forty and died of illness
釋玄恪。新羅人。嶷然孤硬。具大知見。性喜講說赴感隨機。時人指為火中芙蓉也。常歎受生邊地。未覩中華。聞風而悅。木道乃屆。敻目東圻。遂含西笑。心慚中晝。志要歷參。比猶月行。午夜任運而轉。或層岩四合。鳥道雲齊。或連氷千里。風行雲臥。遂與玄照法師相隨至西乾大覺寺。遊滿焰之路。賞無影之邦。負笈精研。琢玉成器。年過不惑。遇疾乃亡。玄照者亦新羅之高士也。與恪同科始終一揆。未詳所卒。復有新羅僧二人。莫知其名。發自長安。泛泊至室利佛逝國遇疾俱亡。
The monk Hyeongak (玄恪) was a man of Silla. He stood up high and hard and alone, and he had great knowledge and sight. By nature he loved to preach and explain, meeting each feeling as it came and following each capacity, and so the men of that time pointed to him as a lotus in the midst of fire.
He always sighed that he had been born in a border land and had never seen China. Then he heard of its ways and was glad, and by the road of wood he came at last. He had set his eyes far upon the eastern bounds, and now he turned toward the west with a smile held in. His heart was ashamed before the broad day, and he willed to go everywhere and take part. It was like the moon on its course, turning at midnight as its fortune carried it. Sometimes the layered cliffs closed in on four sides, and the birds' road ran level with the clouds. Sometimes the ice lay unbroken for a thousand li, and he went on the wind and lay down in the clouds.
At last he went with the master of the Law Hyeonjo to Daegak Monastery in India in the west, and he journeyed on the road that is full of flame and looked upon the land that has no shadows. He carried his book box and ground his learning fine, and he cut the jade until it became a vessel. He passed the age of forty, met with illness and died.
Hyeonjo (玄照) too was a high scholar of Silla. He was of one order with Hyeongak, and one with him from first to last. How he died is not known. There were also two monks of Silla whose names are not known. They set out from Chang'an and put out in a ship, and when they reached the country of Sillibulseo (室利佛逝) they met with illness and both died.