歷代三寶紀 11.60

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右一部一十八卷。武帝世。外國沙門僧伽跋陀羅。齊言僧賢。師資相傳云。佛涅槃後優波離既結集律藏訖。即於其年七月十五日受自恣竟。以香華供養律藏。便下一點置律藏前。年年如是。優波離欲涅槃持付弟子陀寫俱。陀寫俱欲涅槃付弟子須俱。須俱欲涅槃付弟子悉伽婆。悉伽婆欲涅槃付弟子目揵連子帝須。目揵連子帝須欲涅槃付弟子旃陀跋闍。如是師師相付至今三藏法師。三藏法師將律藏至廣州臨上。舶反還去。以律藏付弟子僧伽跋陀羅。羅以永明六年共沙門僧猗。於廣州竹林寺譯出此善見毘婆沙。因共安居。以永明七年庚午歲七月半夜受自恣竟。如前師法。以香華供養律藏訖即下一點。當其年計得九百七十五點。點是一年。趙伯休梁大同元年。於廬山值苦行律師弘度。得此佛涅槃後眾聖點記年月。訖齊永明七年伯休語弘度云。自永明七年以後云何不復見點。弘度答云。自此已前皆是得道聖人手自下點。貧道凡夫止可奉持頂戴而已。不敢輒點。伯休因此舊點下。推至梁大同九年癸亥歲。合得一千二十八年。房依伯休所推從大同九年至今開皇十七年丁巳歲。合得一千八十二年。若然則是如來滅度始出千年。去聖尚邇深可慶歡。願共勵誠同宣遺法。

The 1 work above in 18 fascicles. In the reign of Emperor Wu, the foreign śramaṇa Saṅghabhadra—translated into Qi as Sengxian. According to master-to-disciple transmission: after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, once Upāli had completed the compilation of the Vinaya Piṭaka, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of that very year, having concluded the pavāraṇā ceremony, he made offerings of incense and flowers to the Vinaya Piṭaka, and placed a single dot before the Vinaya Piṭaka. It was done thus year after year. When Upāli was about to enter nirvāṇa, he entrusted it to his disciple Dāsaka; when Dāsaka was about to enter nirvāṇa, he entrusted it to his disciple Soṇaka; when Soṇaka was about to enter nirvāṇa, he entrusted it to his disciple Siggava; when Siggava was about to enter nirvāṇa, he entrusted it to his disciple Moggaliputta Tissa; when Moggaliputta Tissa was about to enter nirvāṇa, he entrusted it to his disciple Caṇḍavajji. In this manner it was transmitted from master to master down to the present Tripiṭaka master. When the Tripiṭaka master brought the Vinaya Piṭaka to Guangzhou and was about to board the ship to return, he entrusted the Vinaya Piṭaka to his disciple Saṅghabhadra. In the sixth year of the Yongming era, Bhadra, together with śramaṇa Sengyi, translated this Samantapāsādikā at Zhulin Monastery in Guangzhou. Having held the summer retreat together, on the night of the full moon of the seventh month in the seventh year of the Yongming era (gengwu), having concluded the pavāraṇā ceremony, in accordance with the method of the previous masters, they made offerings of incense and flowers to the Vinaya Piṭaka and then placed a single dot. Reckoning for that year, it came to 975 dots, each dot being one year. In the first year of the Datong era of the Liang, Zhao Boxiu met the ascetic Vinaya master Hongdu at Mount Lu and obtained these dated records of dots made by the holy ones since the Buddha's parinirvāṇa down to the seventh year of the Yongming era of the Qi. Boxiu said to Hongdu: 'Why are no further dots seen after the seventh year of the Yongming era?' Hongdu replied: 'Before this, it was all holy ones who had attained the Way who personally placed the dots with their own hands. I, an impoverished monk, am a common person; I can only uphold it reverently, but dare not add a dot at will.' From these existing dots, Boxiu calculated down to the ninth year of the Datong era (guihai), obtaining a total of 1,028 years. Calculating on the basis of Boxiu's deduction, from the ninth year of Datong down to the present seventeenth year of the Kaihuang era (dingsi), it comes to a total of 1,082 years. If that is so, it has only been a little over a thousand years since the Tathāgata entered parinirvāṇa. The distance from the Holy One is still near, which is truly a cause for great rejoicing. May we encourage our devotion together and jointly propagate the bequeathed Dharma!