涅槃經遊意 1.93

1.93

第四、知秀師亦云不可翻。彼師序云：涅槃是圓極至住之總名也，然因迹見名，見名知本。名迹之興肇自天竺，我大梁亦應有稱。但弘道之近，既發軫西域於未測，此方以「伊」譯翻，是以前賢後哲，皆順舊本述而不作，故題之經道。

Fourth, Master Zhixiu also said it cannot be translated. That master’s preface says: “Nirvāṇa is the general name for the consummate, ultimate, supreme state. Yet following the traces one sees the name, and seeing the name one knows the fundamental. The rising of name and trace originated in India, and our Great Liang should also have an appellation. But the recent spread of the Way, having departed from the Western Regions in unfathomability, is translated in this country with the letter ‘I’; therefore former worthies and later sages all followed the old text, transmitting without inventing, and thus titled the path of the sūtra.”