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維摩經玄疏 5.39

維摩經玄疏 5.39

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5.39

又,無翻者問有翻者曰:若言「昔兩國之言未通,故云無翻;今兩國之語既通,定有翻者」,修多羅但是外國之一言,今何得翻者不同,五語各異?若一翻為是,餘四則非,孰是孰非?若五翻俱是,彼一此五,一不可為五,五不可為一,此為大妨。若五語俱非,定知無翻,設更出異翻,皆不可用。

Furthermore, those who hold "untranslatable" ask those who hold "translatable": "If you say, 'Formerly the languages of the two countries were not mutually intelligible, hence it was called untranslatable; now that the languages of the two countries are intelligible, there is definitely a translation,' then sūtra is only a single word from a foreign country. Why now are the translators not uniform, with five terms each differing? If one translation is right, the remaining four are wrong; which is right and which is wrong? If all five translations are right, that [source] is one while this is five; one cannot be five, and five cannot be one, which presents a major contradiction. If all five terms are wrong, then it is definitively known to be untranslatable; even if further differing translations are produced, none can be used."

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