釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 1.57

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第一、先翻共名者，禪是外國之言，此間翻則不定。今略出三翻：一、《摩訶衍論》中翻禪，秦言思惟修；二、舉例往翻，如檀波羅蜜，此言布施度，禪波羅蜜，此言定度，故知用定以翻禪；三、阿毘曇中用功德叢林以翻禪。

First, as for translating the shared name: *chan* (dhyāna) is a foreign word; translations here vary. Now three translations are briefly presented: first, in the Mahāyāna Treatise, *chan* is translated into the language of Qin as "cultivation of thought" (cintā-bhāvanā); second, translating by analogy, just as *dāna-pāramitā* is called here the "perfection of giving" and *dhyāna-pāramitā* is called here the "perfection of concentration," we know that "concentration" is used to translate *chan*; third, in the Abhidharma, "thicket of merits" is used to translate *chan*.