[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) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 10.46 # 佛祖統紀 10.46 佛祖統紀 10.46 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.10.46) 梁肅。字敬之。安定人。大歷貞元間。文士多尚古學。唯肅最稱淵奧。柳子厚記先友亦稱。其最善為文。嘗學天台之道於荊溪。深得心要。執弟子禮甚恭。以止觀文義弘博覽者費日。乃刪定為六卷（慈雲有云。文雖簡要。而修相闕略）。又述統例以繫於後。謂止觀是救世明道之書。又為大師傳論。備敘傳教之大統。世謂論其文則雄深雅健。語其理則明白洞達。御史崔恭論之曰。知法要識權實。作天台禪林寺碑。達教源用境智。作荊溪大師碑（見崔恭作梁氏集序）又曰。朝廷尚德。故以公為太子侍讀。國尚實錄。故以公為史舘修撰。發號令敷王猷。故以公為翰林學士。三職齊著。則公之官於朝。不為不達矣。年過四十。士林歸宗比夫顏子黃叔度。不為不壽矣。彼碌碌者老於郎署。白首人世又何補哉。 > Liang Su, courtesy name Jingzhi, was a native of Anding. During the Dali and Zhenyuan eras, many literati esteemed ancient learning, but Su was renowned as the most profound and obscure. Liu Zihou, in his record of departed friends, also praised him as the most skillful in prose. He once studied the Tiantai way under Jingxi, deeply grasping the essentials of the mind, and observed the etiquette of a disciple with great reverence. Deeming the text and meaning of Calm-and-Insight to be broad and extensive, costing readers many days, he abridged and established it in six fascicles (Ciyun stated: "Although the text is concise and essential, the aspects of cultivation are lacking and omitted"). He also composed the "General Principles" to append to the end, stating that Calm-and-Insight was a work for saving the world and illuminating the Way. Furthermore, he composed the "Treatise on the Master's Biography," fully recounting the great lineage of transmitting the teachings. The world regarded his writing as powerful, profound, elegant, and vigorous, and its principles as clear, penetrating, and thorough. The imperial censor Cui Gong praised him, saying: "Knowing the essentials of the Dharma and recognizing the provisional and the real, he composed the stele for the Tiantai Chanlin Temple; reaching the source of the teachings and applying the object and wisdom, he composed the stele for Great Master Jingxi." (See Cui Gong's preface to the Liang Collection.) He also said: "The imperial court esteemed virtue, and therefore appointed you as the Crown Prince's Reader-in-Waiting; the state esteemed veritable records, and therefore appointed you as an Historiographical Compiler; issuing orders and displaying royal policies, it therefore made you a Hanlin Academician. When three offices are held concurrently, one cannot say you were unsuccessful in official service at court. You passed the age of forty, and the literati turned to you in reverence, comparing you to Yanzi and Huang Shudu; one cannot say you lacked longevity. As for those mediocre individuals who grow old in the ministries, having white heads in the mortal world, what benefit do they bring?" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.10.45) - [Next: 10.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.10.47) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.10.46) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.10.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.10.46) · Pramāṇa