In a temple at the peak of the mountain, Yin-Shun shut himself away to read the Chinese Tripitaka, an enormous collection of the Buddhist canon. He would wake up every morning at 4 a.m. and read 50-60,000 characters per day. The undertaking required tremendous tolerance for solitude and frustration, for the canon is vast and the content arcane.
民國十九年，印順法師在浙江普陀山福泉庵出家，之後在普陀山最高處的慧濟寺閱藏樓中閉門苦讀《大藏經》，每天清晨四時即起，一天讀五、六萬字，經卷浩瀚如海，佛理又奧秘難解，必須耐得住孤絕、忍得住困惑而不退轉放棄。