佛祖歷代通載 6.9

6.9

（三）　太始元年。月氏國沙門曇摩羅奈。晉言法護。至洛陽。護學究三十六國道術。兼通其語。及自天竺大齎梵本婆羅門經達於玉門。因居燉煌。世號燉煌菩薩。後游洛邑及之江左。永嘉中隨處譯經。未甞暫停。時優婆塞聶承遠執筆助翻。垂四百卷。及承遠卒。其子道真者。詢稟咨承法護。筆授外道真自譯經六十餘卷。時晉沙門釋法炬法立支敏度及優婆塞衛仕度等。譯出眾經。外炬與立等每相參合。廣略異同編次部類。凡一百四十餘卷。復有沙門畺良婁至安法欽竺叔蘭白法祖支法度等。各出眾經。所以西晉已來宣譯漸盛。

3. In the first year of the Taishi era, the monk Dharmarakṣa from the realm of the Yuezhi—in Jin called Fahu—arrived in Luoyang. Dharmarakṣa had thoroughly investigated the arts of the thirty-six kingdoms and was also fluent in their languages. He had brought back a vast collection of Sanskrit manuscripts of brahmanical and Buddhist scriptures from India, reaching Yumen, and consequently settled in Dunhuang; contemporaries called him the Bodhisattva of Dunhuang. Later, he traveled through the city of Luoyang and reached Jiangzuo. During the Yongjia era, he translated sūtras wherever he stayed, never pausing even briefly. At that time, the upāsaka Nie Chengyuan held the brush and assisted in the translation of nearly four hundred fascicles. When Chengyuan died, his son Daozhen consulted, received instructions from, and served Dharmarakṣa; besides the transcriptions he recorded, Daozhen translated over sixty fascicles of scriptures on his own. At that time, the Jin monks Shi Faju, Fali, and Zhi Mindu, as well as the upāsaka Wei Shidu and others, translated various scriptures. In addition, Faju, Fali, and their circle constantly compared and collated texts, organizing them into sections and categories according to differences and similarities in their expansive and abridged versions, amounting to more than one hundred and forty fascicles in all. Furthermore, there were the monks Kalaṅka, An Famin, Zhu Shulan, Bo Fazu, Zhi Fadu, and others, each of whom brought forth various scriptures. Thus, from the Western Jin onward, the transmission and translation of scriptures gradually flourished.