華嚴發菩提心章 1.2

1.2

此章別有異本，而文畫多紕謬，字句頗缺脫，今以梅尾南都諸本隨義參訂改正。筆削非私意也，每值文有大異，繫之鼇頭。《法界義鏡》曰：「香象大師《菩提心章》載法界觀門，以明發心相。」故今章明第四表德中有五門：自第一真空觀至第三周遍含容觀，全舉彼觀文耳也。又如圓超《疏鈔錄》、凝然《華嚴宗要義》、永超《東域傳燈錄》及《高山寺藏目》等，皆標為賢首撰也。世別有題為《華嚴三昧章》者，然其文大同此章。今謂是乃後學誤以今章殘編為《三昧章》者耶？故《探玄記》說十重唯識曰：「上來所明約教就解而說。若就觀、行，亦有十重，如一卷《華嚴三昧》中說云。」然考世所題為《三昧章》者，總無其文，故知彼非其於《探玄記》所指者必矣。

There are different variants of this essay, yet the text contains many errors and quite a few words and sentences are missing. Now, based on the various editions from Toganoo and the Southern Capital (Nara), corrections and revisions have been made in accordance with the meaning. These emendations are not based on private opinion; whenever there is a major discrepancy in the text, it is appended in the upper margin. The Fajie yijing states: "Master Xiangxiang's Bodhicitta Essay records the contemplation gates of the dharmadhātu in order to elucidate the characteristics of arousing the mind." Therefore, in the fourth section of the present essay, "Manifesting the Virtues," there are five gates: from the first, the contemplation of true emptiness, to the third, the contemplation of omnipresent and all-embracing [inclusion], it quotes that text of contemplation in its entirety. Furthermore, texts such as Yuanchao's Shuchao lu, Gyōnen's Kegonshū yōgi, Eichō's Tōiki dentō roku, and the Kōzanji zōmoku all attribute the authorship to Xianshou. There is also an extant work titled Avataṃsaka-samādhi Essay, but its text is largely the same as this essay. Could it be that later scholars mistakenly took a fragmentary edition of this essay to be the Samādhi Essay? Thus, when the Tanxuan ji explains the ten levels of consciousness-only, it states: "What has been explained above is discussed in terms of teaching with respect to understanding. If one considers contemplation and practice, there are also ten levels, as explained in the one-fascicle Avataṃsaka-samādhi." However, upon examining what the world titles the Samādhi Essay, it lacks that text entirely; therefore, we must know that it is definitely not what was referred to in the Tanxuan ji.