人天眼目 6.142

6.142

The reasons for the composition of this book are fully seen in the prefaces and colophons of the two venerable masters, Huiyan and Wuchu. Nevertheless, during the flourishing era of the Zhao Song dynasty, when southern-seeking patch-robed monks transcribed it, errors like mistaking 'wu' and 'yan' for 'ma' were not absent. Thereupon the Chan practitioner Liaogao, with a determined mind to correct them, began from the Chuandeng [lu] downward, proceeding to the separate records of the venerable elders of the five houses and lineages, exhaustively consulting, delving into, puncturing, and collating every one of them, and thereby completed an authentic version. Is this not what is called: 'Master Meng's merit was not inferior to that of Yu'? The Daoist of Jingzhi, aspiring to Yan Hui and admiring Lin Xiangru, ordered artisans to engrave the printing blocks in order to grant it enduring transmission. His employment of mind may indeed be called diligent. If students should reflect on why it was titled Rentian yanmu, then this effort will not have been exerted in vain.