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天台菩薩戒疏 1.20

天台菩薩戒疏 1.20

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1.20

五、明傳譯時代者,即大秦弘始三年,有西國三藏鳩摩羅什,此云童壽,來達漢境,光顯大乘,匡維聖教。於逍遙園(或云於草堂寺)傳譯經論三百餘卷,五十餘部。梵納一本第十〈心地〉最後誦出,兩卷成文。上卷明菩薩階位,下卷明菩薩律儀。纔翻譯訖,于時沙門慧融、道祥等八百餘人,請從受戒。融等筆授,咸同誦持。仍於下卷偈頌之後,獨為一軸。自云:此等戒相,出自《梵網經.律藏品》內,盧舍那佛為妙海王及王千子授菩薩戒法。

Fifth, explaining the period of transmission and translation: in the third year of Hongshi of the Great Qin, there was the Tripiṭaka master from the Western regions, Kumārajīva—translated here as Tongshou ('Youthful Life')—who arrived in the Han lands, glorifying the Mahāyāna and upholding the sacred teachings. In the Xiaoyao Garden (some say in Caotang Temple), he transmitted and translated over three hundred fascicles and more than fifty works of sūtras and treatises. From a single Sanskrit copy, the tenth chapter, 'Mind-Ground', was recited out last, forming a text in two fascicles. The upper fascicle explains the bodhisattva stages, and the lower fascicle explains the bodhisattva's vinaya deportment. Just as the translation was completed, the śramaṇas Huirong, Daoxiang, and over eight hundred others requested to receive the precepts from him. Rong and the others recorded them in writing, and all chanted and upheld them together. Furthermore, following the verses of the lower fascicle, it was made into an independent scroll. It itself states: 'These precept marks originate from within the "Vinaya Piṭaka Chapter" of the Brahmajāla Sūtra, wherein Rocana Buddha conferred the bodhisattva precept Dharma upon King Sublime Ocean and his one thousand sons.'

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