Li was so impressed with the youngster, who would later become the highest ranking monk in China, that he wrote: "When a novice delivers a sermon and his elders listen, then wisdom must not derive from age but from spirit."
唐朝悟達國師十三歲就能講經，李商隱為詩讚嘆道：「十歲沙彌能說法，似師之年只持；沙彌說法沙門聽，不在年高在性靈。」