西方合論 3.5

3.5

1. The warp within the warp: First, the *Wuliang pingdeng qingjing jue jing*; second, the *Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra*; third, the *Amitābha-sūtra*; fourth, the *Wuliangshou zhuangyan jing*; fifth, the eighteenth assembly from the *Ratnakūṭa*, entitled *Wuliangshou rulai hui*. These five sūtras derive from the same Sanskrit text, and the first four translations are slightly unrefined. Sixth is the *Da Amituo jing*, which Upāsaka Longshu compiled by combining the previous four translations; the Buddha expounded it on Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa in the country of Rājagṛha for Ānanda, Maitreya, and others. The one from the *Ratnakūṭa* in between is rich in meaning and normative in diction; I do not know why Longshu did not see this text.