[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) › [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036) › 12.13 # 佛祖歷代通載 12.13 佛祖歷代通載 12.13 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12.13) 三月庚申。百僚奉表美揚聖製。別詔禮部尚書許敬宗送碑文示法師玄奘。甲子奘率徒詣闕。奉表謝曰。造化之功。既播物而成教。聖人之道。亦因辭而見情。然則畫卦垂文。空談形於器宇。設爻分象。實未越於寰域。羲皇之德。尚見稱於前古。姬后之風。亦獨高於後代。豈若開物成務。闡八正以摛章。詮道立言。證三明而導俗。理窮天地之表。情該日月之外。校其優劣。斯為盛矣。共惟陛下金輪在運玉曆乘時。化洽四洲仁覃九有。道苞前聖功茂乃神。縱多能於生知。資率由於天至。始悲奩鏡即剏招提。俄樹勝幢乃敷文律。若乃天華欵發睿藻波騰。吞筆海而孕龍宮。掩詞林而苞鶴樹。內該八藏。外覈六經。奧而能典。宏而且密。使祇園遺迹。託寶思而彌高。奈苑餘芳。假瓊章而不朽。豈直抑揚夢境昭晰迷途。諒以鎔範四天牢籠三界者矣。奘以其文宜得聖筆自寫。因抗表勸請制不許。再表遂許之。 > In the third month, on the gengshen day, the hundred officials submitted a memorial praising and extolling the imperial composition. A separate edict was issued to Xu Jingzong, Minister of Rites, to deliver the stele text and show it to Dharma Master Xuanzang. On the jiazi day, Xuanzang led his disciples to the palace gates to present a memorial of thanks, saying: "The merit of Creation, having nurtured things, forms instruction; the Dao of the Sage is also revealed through words to manifest emotion. However, drawing hexagrams and setting down texts merely gives empty expression to physical forms; establishing lines and delineating emblems in truth does not surpass the mortal realm. The virtue of the Sovereign Fuxi was indeed praised in high antiquity; the manner of the Zhou kings was also uniquely exalted in later ages. Yet how could they compare with opening up phenomena and achieving undertakings, expounding the Eightfold Path through literary composition; explicating the Dao and establishing teachings, certifying the Threefold Knowledge to guide the worldly? The principle exhausts what lies beyond heaven and earth; the emotion embraces what is outside the sun and moon. Weighing their merits, this is the most magnificent! We respectfully contemplate Your Majesty: the Golden Wheel is in motion, the Jade Calendar accords with the times. Your transformation reaches the four continents; Your benevolence spreads across the nine regions. Your Dao encompasses the former sages; Your achievements surpass the divine. Giving free rein to Your versatile talents born of innate knowledge, Your natural gifts stem entirely from heavenly endowment. When You first grieved over the mirror-case, You founded this monastery; soon, having raised the banner of victory, You laid out these literary regulations. Indeed, heavenly flowers gracefully blossom, and wise prose rises like waves, swallowing the ocean of brushes to harbor the Dragon Palace, overshadowing the grove of letters to encompass the Crane Trees. Internally, it embraces the Eight Pitakas; externally, it examines the Six Classics. It is profound yet canonical, vast yet meticulous. It causes the remaining traces of the Jetavana to rise ever higher by relying on Your precious thoughts, and the lingering fragrance of the mango grove to become imperishable by receiving Your jade composition. How could it merely uplift the dream realm and illuminate the bewildered path? Truly, it shapes the four heavens and encompasses the three realms!" Xuanzang, believing that this text should be transcribed by the imperial brush itself, submitted a memorial requesting it; the edict did not grant it. Upon a second memorial, it was finally granted. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12.12) - [Next: 12.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12.14) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036~en-mt.12.13) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2053.9.4) — 慧立 & 彥悰, Classical Chinese - [寺沙門玄奘上表記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2119.1.48) — Xuanzang, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12.13) · Pramāṇa