佛祖歷代通載 10.25

10.25

（九）　周武天和四年。帝命名儒僧道伸述三教利病。沙門道安作二教論二十篇。以儒道九流為外教。釋氏為內教。意謂上古朴素墳典之誥未弘。淳風日澆丘索之文乃著。苞綸七典統括九流。咸為治國之謀。並是修身之具。若派而分之。數應為九。若總而合之。則同屬儒宗。今乃一化之內令九流爭川。大道之世使小成競辨。豈不上傷皇極莫大之風。下開拘放鄙蕩之弊哉。及闡譯內興奏之于朝。久而無報。安勤於奉母。凡薪水飲食皆自力營進。其徒有代之者。安曰。吾母也。豈可勞人哉。及周武廢教。以安宿望欲官之。安以死拒絕。尋以大教堙阨號慟而卒。

(9) In the fourth year of Tianhe of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou, the emperor ordered prominent Confucians, monks, and Daoists to expound upon the advantages and defects of the Three Teachings. The śramaṇa Dao'an composed the Treatise on the Two Teachings in twenty chapters, taking Confucianism, Daoism, and the Nine Schools as the Outer Teaching, and the Buddhist teachings as the Inner Teaching. The meaning was that in high antiquity of simplicity, the declarations of the ancient canons were not yet widespread; as the pure ways daily declined, the texts of the Five Classics and ancient books then appeared. Encompassing the Seven Classics and comprehending the Nine Schools, they are all strategies for governing the state and instruments for cultivating the person. If divided into branches, their number should be nine; if combined and united, they all belong to the Confucian school. If now, within a single transformation, the Nine Schools are made to contend like converging streams, and in an age of the Great Way petty accomplishments are made to vie in disputation, does this not above impair the grandest breeze of imperial norms, and below open the defects of narrow-mindedness and vulgar abandon? When the treatise expounding the Inner Teaching was presented to the court, for a long time there was no response. An was diligent in serving his mother; all firewood, water, and food he personally labored to provide. When his disciples offered to take his place, An said: "She is my mother; how can I trouble others?" When Emperor Wu abolished the teaching, he wished to appoint An to official office because of his long-standing prestige. An refused to the death. Soon afterward, grieving bitterly over the obstruction and destruction of the Great Teaching, he wept aloud and passed away.