因明入正理論疏 1.3

1.3

粵以金容晈夢，玉牒暉晨，雖至教已隆，而斯典未備。惟我親教三藏大師，道貫五明，聲映千古。嗟去聖之彌遠，慨心氷之未釋，遂乃振錫中區，以發覺城之地；尋師西夏，直詣耆闍之山。轥曩哲之未聞，並苞心極；架前賢之不覿，咸貫情樞。於是貝葉撰於微言，家邦返以神足。方言既譯，道理攸暢。基謬參資列，欣夕死於朝聞，恐此道不行，乃略述閱釋，示紀綱之旨，陳幽隱之宗，庶明懸智鏡者，幸留心而鑒照矣。

Since the golden countenance shone in the dream and the jade tablets illuminated the dawn, although the supreme teaching has flourished, this canon had not yet been fully prepared. Only our preceptor, the Great Master of the Three Baskets, whose path ran through the five sciences and whose fame illuminated a thousand generations, lamented that the departure of the Sage had grown ever more distant and grieved that the ice within the mind remained unmelted. He thereupon shook his monk's staff in the central region to depart from the land of the city of enlightenment; he sought teachers in the western regions and went directly to Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa. Trampling upon what past philosophers had never heard, he embraced the extremes of the mind; soaring over what former worthies had not beheld, he penetrated the pivot of inner thoughts. Thereupon, palm leaves were compiled with subtle words, and he returned to his home country with divine footsteps. Once the local languages were translated, the principles were made thoroughly lucid. Ji, having mistakenly joined the ranks of his disciples, rejoices in hearing the truth in the morning even if dying in the evening. Fearing that this path might not be put into practice, I have briefly related and collated an explanation, setting forth the purport of the main guidelines and expounding the essential tenets of the esoteric, in the hope that those who suspend the bright mirror of wisdom will kindly turn their minds to reflect and illuminate it.