成唯識論述記 1.20

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四、教興年主。於中有二：一、教興年；二、教興主。教興年者，慧愷法師《俱舍》序云：佛滅已後千一百年，天親菩薩出生造論。依今所傳，諸部說異。今依大乘，九百年間天親菩薩出世造此頌本。真諦法師《中邊疏》亦云：凡百年中天親生也，同時唯有親勝、火辨二大論師造此頌釋，千一百年後餘八論師方造斯釋。教興主者，《三十頌》本天親菩薩之所作也，其別神德具如別記。

Fourth, the time of the teaching's appearance and its author. In this there are two: first, the time of the teaching's appearance; second, the author of the teaching's appearance. Regarding the time of the teaching's appearance: Dharma Master Huikai's Preface to the Kośa states: 'Eleven hundred years after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, Bodhisattva Vasubandhu appeared and composed the treatise.' According to what is transmitted today, the accounts of various schools differ. Relying now on the Mahāyāna, in the nine-hundredth year Bodhisattva Vasubandhu appeared in the world and composed the original verses. Dharma Master Paramārtha's Commentary on the Madhyāntavibhāga also says: 'Vasubandhu was born within nine hundred years; at the same time, only the two great masters Bandhuśrī and Citrabhāna composed commentaries on these verses; after eleven hundred years, the other eight masters then composed their commentaries.' Regarding the author of the teaching's appearance: the root text of the Triṃśikā was composed by Bodhisattva Vasubandhu; his distinct divine virtues are fully detailed in separate records.