[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) › 25.3 # 佛祖統紀 25.3 佛祖統紀 25.3 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [25.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.25.3) 智者高座以縱辯。章安直筆以載書。所謂以文字廣第一義諦。是猶託之空言。不如載之行事之深切著明也。荊谿有云。文即門也。即文以通其理。豈非門乎。至若後世發揮祖道粲然有述。雖各出義章互形廢立。所以歸宗之誠。則無乎不同也。今故並陳篇目。以貽好古者之求。述山家教典志。 > Zhiyi ascended the high seat to give free rein to eloquence, and Zhāng'ān set his brush upright to record it in writings. As for what is called 'expanding the primary truth by means of writing', this was still entrusted to mere words; it is not as profoundly incisive and clearly evident as recording it through actual events. Jīngxī remarked: 'Texts are gates; using texts to penetrate their principle—how is that not a gate?' When it came to later generations elaborating the patriarchal path, their brilliant treatises emerged: though they each offered doctrinal compositions and alternately affirmed or refuted each other, in their sincerity of returning to the lineage they were in no way different. Now therefore, their titles are set forth side by side, so as to bequeath them to the inquiries of those who esteem antiquity. Thus is composed the Treatise on the Doctrinal Texts of the Mountain School. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 25.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.25.2) - [Next: 25.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.25.4) - [Up: 25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.25) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.25.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.25.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.25.3) · Pramāṇa