妙法蓮華經文句 1.8

1.8

Introductory Chapter, Number One (It is difficult for a Buddha to appear in the world; it is difficult for a Buddha to preach this; it is difficult to transmit and translate this; it is difficult to awaken to it on one's own; it is difficult to hear a master lecture on it; it is difficult to record it in a single hearing. At twenty-seven, I heard and received it in Jinling; at sixty-nine, I made additions and deletions at Danqiu, leaving it as a gift for later worthies so that we may together attain the Buddha's wisdom.)