尼羯磨 1.3

1.3

原夫鹿苑龍城，啟尸羅之妙躅；象巖鷲嶺，開解脫之玄宗。於是三千大千，受清涼而出火宅；天上天下，乘戒筏而越迷津。內眾於是敷榮，外徒由斯安樂。其後韜真細㲲，多聞折軸之憂；揜正微言，罕見浮囊之固。即有飲光秀出，維絕紐而虛求；波離事興，振隤網而幽贊。慧炬於焉重朗，戒海由是再清。其律教也弘深，固難得而遍舉。此羯磨者，則紹隆之正術，匡護之宏規，宗緒歸於五篇，濫觴起於《四分》，寔菩提之機要，誠涅槃之津涉者也。

Tracing back to the Deer Park and the Dragon City, the wondrous tracks of śīla were first opened; at Elephant Rock and Vulture Peak, the profound tenets of liberation were unfolded. Thereupon throughout the great trichiliocosm, [beings] received cool refreshment and escaped the burning house; above the heavens and beneath the heavens, they boarded the raft of the precepts and crossed the bewildering ford. The inner community flourished through this, and external followers found peace and happiness thereby. Thereafter, the True [One] was concealed beneath fine cotton robes, and much learning faced the sorrow of a broken axle; the subtle words of correctness were obscured, and rare was the sight of a flotation bladder's firmness. Thereupon Kāśyapa pre-eminently emerged, holding fast the broken cord and seeking [the teachings] without bias; Upāli's task arose, lifting up the fallen net and providing profound support. The torch of wisdom was once again brightened, and the ocean of precepts was thereby purified anew. The Vinaya teachings are vast and profound, indeed difficult to cite in their entirety. These karman procedures are the correct method for succession and exaltation, the grand framework for rectification and protection; their fundamental line traces to the five classes of offences, and their headwaters arise from the Dharmaguptaka-vinaya. They are truly the crucial pivot of bodhi, genuinely the ford across to nirvāṇa.