華嚴經旨歸 1.67

1.67

Seventh, as for the Abridged Version of the Sūtra: this is the sixty-fascicle version transmitted in this land. The Sanskrit text has 36,000 gāthās, which was extracted as an essential abridgement from the previous 100,000 gāthās. Formerly, in the fourteenth year of the Yixi era of the Jin dynasty, it was translated at the Xiesikong Monastery in Yangzhou by an Indian Tripiṭaka Master named Buddhabhadra, rendered here as Juexian (Buddhabhadra). He was a person of the three fruits of the Mahāyāna, of the Śākya clan, a descendant of King Amṛtodana, who once went to Tuṣita Heaven to ask Maitreya to resolve doubts, fully as recounted in his separate biography.