釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 1.7

1.7

(Dhyāna Master Yi of Xiuchan Temple on Mount Tiantai expounded the dhyāna teachings in the capital, and the śramaṇa Fashan of Dazhuangyan Temple recorded them. Hearing and studying them in advance, he compiled and recorded them in accordance with what was expounded. The Dharma gates are profound and vast, difficult to detail thoroughly; if taken in full, there would be thirty fascicles. Now the essential applications of the earlier fascicles are briefly extracted to circulate this version, and at Tiantai, the copies written earlier by fellow students have been further edited and corrected. At that time, since it was not yet properly accomplished, it must still have had omissions, or been verbose and out of sequence. If one sees this edition, it has been amended and settled anew, in the hope that students may avoid errors and omissions.)