注大乘入楞伽經 1.11

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按：唐敬愛寺譯經沙門智嚴所注，此經劉宋譯本，其首序云「梵文廣略，通有三本，廣本十萬頌、次本三萬六千頌、略本四千頌。此方前後凡四譯，皆是略本四千頌文。一本舊闕。」大藏中現存三本者，劉宋元嘉十二年中，天竺三藏求那跋陀羅，於金陵草堂寺，譯成四卷，唯一品來文未足，題曰「楞伽阿跋多羅寶經」（在身字凾）。二者後魏三藏菩提流支，延昌二年於洛陽汝南王宅及鄴都金華寺，兼補闕文，凡三品經，譯成一十卷，分為十八品，題曰「入楞伽經」（在髮字凾）。三者唐久視初，于闐國三藏實叉難陀、沙門復禮等，既譯畢《華嚴新經》（八十卷者是），而見此經前譯兩本煩略未馴，意重潤色，以廣流通，續奉詔再譯。遂於嵩嶽天中蘭若，會三本文（上二本并一梵本），勒成七卷，凡一十品，題曰「大乘入楞伽經」（在四字函）。故御製序云：「元嘉建號，跋陀之譯未弘；延昌紀年，流支之義多舛。」今此注者，正釋唐本，仍將流支所譯餘八品題，如次間入注文，經中亦成一十八品，庶知文有始終，理無二致，讀者易曉。

Note: According to the commentary on this sūtra by Śramaṇa Zhiyan, a translator at Jing'ai Monastery of the Tang, upon the Liu Song translation of this sūtra, the opening preface states: 'The Sanskrit texts, in extensive and concise versions, generally comprise three editions: the extensive edition has one hundred thousand verses; the middle edition, thirty-six thousand verses; and the concise edition, four thousand verses. In this land, there have been four translations in all, earlier and later, all of which are the four-thousand-verse concise text. One edition has long been lost.' As for the three editions currently extant in the Great Canon: first, in the twelfth year of Yuanjia of the Liu Song, the Indian Tripiṭaka Guṇabhadra translated it into four fascicles at Caotang Monastery in Jinling, with only one chapter and an incomplete text brought over, entitled Laṅkāvatāra-ratna-sūtra (in the 'Shen' character case). Second, in the second year of Yanchang of the Later Wei, the Tripiṭaka Bodhiruci translated it at the residence of the Prince of Runan in Luoyang and at Jinhua Monastery in the capital of Ye, supplementing the missing text; spanning three chapters of the sūtra, it was translated into ten fascicles, divided into eighteen chapters, and entitled Entry into Laṅkā Sūtra (in the 'Fa' character case). Third, at the beginning of the Jiushi era of the Tang, Tripiṭaka Śikṣānanda of Khotan, Śramaṇa Fuli, and others, having completed the translation of the New Avataṃsaka Sūtra (the eighty-fascicle one), and seeing that the previous two translations of this sūtra were unpolished in their verbosity and brevity, wished to polish them again to expand their circulation, and continuously received an imperial edict to translate it once more. Thereupon, at Tianzhong Hermitage on Mount Song, they gathered the texts of the three editions (the two above along with one Sanskrit manuscript) and compiled them into seven fascicles with a total of ten chapters, entitled Mahāyāna Entry into Laṅkā Sūtra (in the 'Si' character case). Therefore, the Imperial Preface states: 'When the Yuanjia reign title was established, the translation by [Guṇa]bhadra was not widely propagated; when the Yanchang reign was recorded, the meanings in [Bodhi]ruci's [text] contained many discrepancies.' Now this commentary specifically explains the Tang edition, yet it takes the remaining eight chapter titles translated by Bodhiruci and inserts them sequentially into the commentary, so that within the sūtra there also become eighteen chapters, so that people may know that the text has a beginning and an end, and the principle has no discrepancy, making it easy for readers to understand.