樂邦文類 1.92

1.92

以上五經，其平等覺與阿彌陀，並譯出法藏比丘二十四願。無量壽與大寶積會，則譯出四十八願。世有單本四十八願經一卷，此乃於無量壽經錄出，非別有本也。又無量壽莊嚴經譯出三十一願。輔行曰「願數不同，部異見別，不須和會。」然細讀五經，大概起盡皆同，似同梵本，但譯師之異，廣略隨宜耳。而荊溪謂部異見別者，則顯佛說是同、隨機不等，至於結集翻譯皆不同也。然則同異之說，未敢定判，覽者詳之。五譯之中，文相頗明取曹魏本，以故祖師諸文多引用之。

Among the five sutras above, the Equal Enlightenment and the Amitābha both translate twenty-four vows of the bhikṣu Dharmākara. The Immeasurable Life and the Great Ratnakūṭa assembly translate forty-eight vows. There is in circulation a separate single-fascicle text titled Forty-Eight Vows Sutra, which was extracted from the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, not an independent text. Furthermore, the Sutra on the Adornment of Immeasurable Life translates thirty-one vows. The Fuxing states: "The numbers of vows differ because the versions and traditions vary; there is no need to reconcile them." However, reading the five sutras closely, their beginnings and endings are generally the same, seeming to derive from the same Sanskrit original; the differences lie merely in the translators expanding or abridging as appropriate. Yet when Jingxi spoke of "versions and traditions varying," he showed that while the Buddha's preaching was one, it adapted unevenly to faculties, resulting in differences in both compilation and translation. Thus, as to whether they are the same or different, I do not dare make a definitive judgment; let the reader examine them carefully. Among the five translations, the textual formulation is clearest in the Cao Wei version, which is why ancestral masters have mostly cited it in their writings.