大般涅槃經集解 50.48

50.48

The Collected Commentaries on the Nirvāṇa Sūtra in seventy-one fascicles. In the past, during the Kyōhō era, an ancient manuscript was obtained from the sūtra storehouse of Saidai-ji, and I copied it. That manuscript had yellow scrolls and red rods, an elegant object of antiquity. By chance, nine scrolls were missing. Those missing were from the forty-first to the fiftieth, among which only the forty-third was preserved. Lamenting that it was incomplete, I searched for it in various quarters. I heard that at Ryōun-in on Tōeizan in the martial capital, the former Senior Archbishop Jikkan kept it as a secret treasure. His manuscript, in turn, lacked the ten scrolls from the first to the tenth. In the past, when Huiguang of the Kaidan-in went to the Eastern Capital, he spoke with Jikkan, wishing to exchange copies to supplement their missing parts. Fortunately, obtaining the postscript of Jikkan's manuscript, he collated it with the Enryaku-ji manuscript. Before long, it was copied, and the wish was fulfilled. The Archbishop also supplemented his missing portions. This year, the gēngshēn year, during moments of leisure, wishing to supplement the missing parts of the ancient Saidai-ji manuscript, I personally prepared the sūtra scrolls with coarse paper. From the twentieth day of the third month to the twenty-third day of the fifth month, rubbing my ailing eyes, I copied the nine scrolls. The mounting being completed, I deposited them in that temple. In less than a year, three manuscripts are fully complete; is this not delightful? May the merit universally reach the spirits of the three realms, and the planted causes ultimately realize the fruit of the four virtues.