法華遊意 1.419

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第十、明講經原由。經既有二本，初講亦有兩人。漢地以竺法護為始，護公以永熙元年八月二十八日，比丘康那律師於洛陽寫《正法花經》竟，與法護口挍古訓譯出深義。九月本齊，十四日於東牛寺施設檀會講此經竟，日晝夜莫不歡喜。次新翻《法花》竟，道融法師於長安講之，開為九轍，時人呼為九轍法師。自爾已後，著述講說者不可具陳也。

Tenth, explaining the origins of lecturing on the sūtra. Since there are two recensions of the sūtra, there were also two individuals who initially lectured on it. In the land of Han, it began with Zhu Fahu. On the twenty-eighth day of the eighth month in the first year of the Yongxi era, when the vinaya master, the monk Kang Nalu, finished copying the Zheng fahua jing in Luoyang, he orally compared the ancient readings with Fahu and translated the profound meanings. The manuscript was completed in the ninth month, and on the fourteenth day, having arranged a dāna assembly at Dongniu Monastery, he finished lecturing on this sūtra, and day and night all were joyful. Next, when the newly translated Lotus Sūtra was completed, Dharma Master Daorong lectured on it in Chang'an, dividing it into nine sections; people at the time called him the Nine-Sections Dharma Master. From that time onward, those who composed treatises and lectured on it cannot be enumerated in full.