成唯識論述記 1.20

1.20

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.