[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [肇論新疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1860) › 1.2 # 肇論新疏 1.2 肇論新疏 1.2 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1860.1.2) 始自好誦斯論，亦粗玩其辭，尚未能吮其理味以其心也。及隷樊川之興教，得雲庵達禪師疏，又數年應寧夏命，復獲唐光瑤禪師并有宋淨源法師二家註記，反復參訂醇疵紛錯，似有未盡乎論旨之妙夥矣。且論之淵粹簡蘊，見稱所自來，其辭文其施辯，非深入實相踞樂說善巧之峰者莫之為之。予固以為開方等之巨鑰、游性海之洪舟，運權不之均車、排異見之正說，真一乘師子吼之雅作，欲乎吾人之性學者先著鞭於此，此而通則大方之理弗虞而妙獲者矣。嗟呼！姚秦迄唐二百餘載，歷賢首清涼圭山賢聖之僧，皆援之以斷大義，獨不為發揮其曲要以召方來，致令諸說鑿柄紛綸，莫知所以裁之之正，乃因暇日謹摭諸先覺之說，別為訓解以授座下。愧夫迫於緣冗，每釋義引據弗獲課虛細以討求，冀同衣同德之士恕以荒斐失而正之可也。 > From the beginning, I was fond of reciting this treatise and also casually savoured its phrases, but I was not yet able to absorb the flavour of its principle with my mind. When I was assigned to Xingjiao in Fanchuan, I obtained the commentary of Chan Master Yunan Da; some years later, responding to a summons to Ningxia, I further obtained the commentaries of Chan Master Guangyao of the Tang and Master Jingyuan of the Song. Examining them back and forth, their pure and flawed aspects were mingled and disordered, and there seemed to be many depths of the treatise's purport that were not fully brought to light. Moreover, the profundity, purity, terseness, and subtlety of this treatise have been praised since its inception; its phrasing is literary and its argumentation unfolds with eloquence—unless one has penetrated deeply into dharmatā and sits upon the peak of delightful eloquence and skillfulness, none could have composed it. I indeed consider it to be the great key that unlocks the vaipulya, the vast vessel that cruises the ocean of nature, the balanced chariot that conveys the provisional and the real, and the correct discourse that banishes deviant views: truly an elegant composition of the ekayāna siṃhanāda. I wish that those of us who study our nature would first apply the whip here; if one thoroughly penetrates this, then the principle of the Great Square will be wonderfully attained without anxious seeking. Alas! From the Yao Qin to the Tang, over more than two hundred years, successive sages and holy monks like Xianshou, Qingliang, and Guishan all cited it to resolve great doctrinal points; yet none elaborated its intricate essentials to summon those to come, causing diverse explanations to be as misfitted as a chisel in a mortise, leaving people not knowing how to judge correctly. Thus, on a day of leisure, I have carefully gathered the explanations of past enlightened ones and separately made an instructional commentary to impart to my assembly. I feel ashamed that, constrained by extraneous busyness, whenever I explain the doctrines and cite authorities I have not been able to exhaust the subtleties in my investigation. I hope that gentlemen of the same robe and the same virtue will forgive my rough, unpolished errors and correct them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1860.1.1) - [Next: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1860.1.3) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1860.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1860~en-mt.1.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1860.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1860.1.2) · Pramāṇa