道宣一生所为，集中为后人称赞的是持律与著史，但若仔细审视其留下的著述，可发现道宣对佛教感通抱着极其强烈的信仰，并努力构建着一个"完美的"佛教世界。从道宣所著的感通记等文献中，可发现他对佛教历史及人物进行了别样的疏解。这些感通故事，不仅是其个人修行生活的体验，也有其展现佛教神圣性的用意。通过这些神异色彩浓烈的故事，帮助道宣构建和宣传了更神圣，更有"宇宙中心"色彩的佛教。从研究与道宣相关的感通记也能看出，他首先是一名宗教师，佛教徒，进一步的，又成为后世眼中的律宗建立者，佛教史家。

Daoxuan is mainly praised for his obedience to Buddhist disciplines and his historical writings. However, a careful reading of his works will tell us that Daoxuan held a strong belief in Buddhist epiphany and made great efforts to build a "perfect" Buddhist world. His records of epiphany show that Daoxuan interpreted Buddhist history and figures in a particular way. The stories of Buddhist epiphany not only recorded his personal experience, but also were used to demonstrate the holiness of Buddhism. With their strong mysterious color, they helped Daoxuan construct and preach a more sacred Buddhism as the "center of the universe". Examining the records of epiphany related to Daoxuan, we can also see that he was a Buddhist master above all, and then he was respected as the founder of Vinaya school of Chinese Buddhism and a historian of Buddhism.