佛祖統紀 53.79

53.79

漢明帝。摩騰竺法蘭至。始譯四十二章經。法蘭又譯佛本行經五部○桓帝。支讖譯般舟三昧經等二十一部○靈帝。竺佛朔譯道行般若經。終漢之世。譯經三百餘部○信士嚴佛調。譯古維摩經。

Under Emperor Ming of Han, Mātanga and Dharmaratna arrived and first translated the *Sūtra of Forty-two Chapters*. Dharmaratna also translated five works including the *Buddhacarita*. Under Emperor Huan, Lokakṣema translated twenty-one works including the *Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sūtra*. Under Emperor Ling, Zhu Foshuo translated the *Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra*. By the end of the Han dynasty, more than three hundred works of scripture had been translated. The faithful layman Yan Fodiao translated an old *Vimalakīrti Sūtra*.