Firstly there is the sense, difficult to frame in words, of being "unaffectedly great." Then there is the sense, similarly indescribable, of the contrast between Buddhist figures of the present day and their forerunners in China of the sixth to tenth centuries, when the religion was at its peak.
第一，平實中見其偉大，這種境界文字的確不易描述。另一層自然也可能是，在這個末法時代，一個現代大師，與隋唐五代佛法大興時的大師確有層次之別。