涅槃經遊意 1.112

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息有三：一息因果患。二息諸事業。諸事業者，文云：「雖得禪定、智慧、解脫，不名畢竟，若能斷除三十七品所行之事，乃名畢竟涅槃也。」前諸師定言不可翻，具如前難。今復定言可翻，亦彼研覈叡師《大品序》云：秦言謬者定之以字義，胡音失者正之以天竺，不可變者則而出，今既出以涅槃則是不可翻，云何言可翻耶？

There are three kinds of resting: first, resting the afflictions of cause and fruit. Second, resting all activities. As for all activities, the text says: “Although one attains dhyāna, wisdom, and liberation, it is not called ultimate; if one can sever and eliminate the activities practiced in the thirty-seven factors, it is then called ultimate nirvāṇa.” The former masters definitively said it cannot be translated, fully as challenged before. Now, to definitively say again that it can be translated is also investigated by them: Master Rui’s Preface to the Pañcaviṃśati says: “What is erroneous in the Qin language is determined by characters and meanings; what is defective in foreign sounds is corrected by Indian [standards]; that which cannot be altered is transcribed and produced.” Now, since it was produced as nirvāṇa, it is untranslatable; how can you say it is translatable?