[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [禪林寶訓](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022) › 1.2 # 禪林寶訓 1.2 禪林寶訓 1.2 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.1.2) 寶訓者。昔妙喜竹菴誅茅江西雲門時共集。予淳熙間。遊雲居得之老僧祖安。惜其年深蠧損首尾不完。後來或見于語錄傳記中。積之十年僅五十篇餘。仍取黃龍下至佛照簡堂諸老遺語。節葺類三百篇。其所得有先後。而不以古今為詮次。大概使學者削勢利人我趨道德仁義而已。其文理優游平易。無高誕荒邈詭異之跡。實可以助入道之遠猷也。且將刊木以廣流傳。必有同志之士。一見而心許者予。雖老死丘壑而志願足矣。東吳沙門淨善書。 > As for the \*Precious Lessons\*, they were originally compiled jointly by Miaoxi and Zhu'an in the past, when they cleared thatch \[to build their huts\] at Yunmen in Jiangxi. During the Chunxi era, when I was visiting Yunju, I obtained them from the elder monk Zu'an. It was a pity that over the course of many years, having suffered worm damage, the beginning and the end were incomplete. Later, I came across some of them in recorded sayings and biographies, and after accumulating them for ten years, there were barely over fifty chapters. Therefore, taking the surviving words of various elders from Huanglong down to Fozhao and Jiantang, I edited and arranged them into roughly three hundred chapters. The times I acquired them varied, so they are not arranged according to chronological order. The general purpose is simply to cause students to cast aside worldly power, gain, self, and others, and to turn toward the Way and virtue, benevolence and righteousness. Their prose style is gentle, peaceful, and straightforward, free from any traces of boastful wildness, remoteness, or deceitful eccentricity; they can truly assist the far-reaching scheme of entering the Way. Now, about to carve the woodblocks to circulate them widely, there will certainly be scholars of like mind who will approve of them at first glance. Even though I may grow old and die among the hills and valleys, my aspirations will have been fulfilled. Written by Jingshan, a śramaṇa of Dongwu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.1.1) - [Next: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.1.3) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022~en-mt.1.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.1.2) · Pramāṇa