楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 1.9

1.9

This sūtra had four translations in all, of which three are extant today: the first was translated under the Liu Song by Guṇabhadra into four fascicles, titled the Laṅkāvatāraratnasūtra; the second was translated under the Yuan Wei by Bodhiruci into ten fascicles, titled the Ru lengqie jing; the third was translated under the Tang by Śikṣānanda together with Fuli and others into seven fascicles, titled the Dasheng ru lengqie jing. In terms of the difficulty of the translated texts, the Tang seven-fascicle text is simple in phrasing and clear in meaning, complete from beginning to end. The present explanation follows the Song translation in four fascicles because this edition was the first to circulate in the world and has the most reciters. Moreover, when Great Master Bodhidharma transmitted the mind-dharma to the Second Patriarch, he indicated that the four-fascicle Laṅkāvatāra could be used to seal the mind; furthermore, Zhang Fangping once copied this edition, and Su Zizhan wrote a preface for that event. Thus we know that most people through successive dynasties followed this edition. However, its wording is terse and archaic, to the point that its punctuation can be unreadable; therefore, we have adopted passages from the seven-fascicle version whose wording and meaning are clear to explain it, while still collecting the best ancient commentaries to annotate it jointly.