[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) › [釋氏稽古略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037) › 1.584 # 釋氏稽古略 1.584 釋氏稽古略 1.584 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.584](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.584) 燉煌菩薩　月氏國沙門竺曇摩羅察。晉言法護。至洛陽。護學究三十六國道術兼通其事。及自天竺大齎梵本婆羅門經達于玉門。因居燉煌。世號燉煌菩薩初譯法華經。曰正法華者是也。後遊洛邑及之江左。晉懷帝永嘉中隨處譯經。未甞暫停。時優婆塞聶承遠執筆助翻。垂四百卷。及承遠卒。其子道真訽稟咨承法護筆授。道真亦自譯經六十餘卷。時晉沙門釋法炬．法立．支敏度．及優婆塞衛仕度等譯出眾經。炬與立等每相參合。廣略同異。編次部類。凡一百四十餘卷。復有沙門畺良樓至．安法欽．竺叔蘭．白法祖．支法度等各出眾經。所以西晉已來宣譯增盛。教相廣流此土者。法護有殊功。護所譯經凡一百七十五部。至晉愍帝建興元年絕筆不譯。護甞於燉煌（今甘肅省沙州路。古流沙地。禹貢雍州之域也）建立伽藍。精進行道　秦築長城西不過臨洮則未有此地漢為燉煌郡。陽關玉門關洼水在焉。漢武帝甞得奇馬於水邊是也（圖經）。 > The Bodhisattva of Dunhuang: The śramaṇa of the Yuezhi nation, Zhu Dharmarakṣa (in the Jin language, Fahu), arrived in Luoyang. Fahu's learning thoroughly mastered the doctrines and practices of thirty-six countries, and he was conversant with their affairs. After bringing a large collection of Sanskrit manuscripts of Brahmanical scriptures from India to the Yumen Pass, he resided in Dunhuang. His contemporaries called him the Bodhisattva of Dunhuang. He first translated the Lotus Sūtra, which is known as the Zheng fahua \[jing\] (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra). Later he travelled to the city of Luoyang and journeyed to the region south of the Yangtze River. During the Yongjia era of Emperor Huai of Jin, he translated sūtras wherever he went, never stopping even briefly. At that time, the upāsaka Nie Chengyuan held the brush to assist in the translations, amounting to nearly four hundred fascicles. When Chengyuan died, his son Daozhen received instructions and transcribed Fahu's dictation. Daozhen himself also translated more than sixty fascicles of sūtras. At that time, the Jin śramaṇas Shi Faju, Fali, and Zhi Mindu, along with the upāsaka Wei Shidu and others, translated numerous scriptures. Ju, Li, and others frequently compared, harmonised, condensed, expanded, noted agreements and differences, and arranged the categories into a total of more than one hundred and forty fascicles. Furthermore, there were the śramaṇas Kālaṛccha (Jianglianglouzhi), An Faqin, Zhu Shulan, Bo Fazu, Zhi Fadu, and others, who each produced various scriptures. Thus, from the Western Jin onward, preaching and translation flourished exceedingly, and the doctrinal characteristics spread widely in this land, for which Fahu possessed extraordinary merit. The scriptures translated by Fahu totalled one hundred and seventy-five works; in the first year of the Jianxing era of Emperor Min of Jin, he laid down his brush and translated no more. Fahu once founded a saṅghārāma in Dunhuang (now Shazhou Route in Gansu Province; the ancient land of shifting sands, within the region of Yongzhou according to the 'Tribute of Yu'), diligently practicing the Way. Qin built the Great Wall no further west than Lintao, so this land did not yet exist \[as Chinese territory\]; the Han made it Dunhuang Commandery. The Yang Pass, the Yumen Pass, and the Wawa River are located there; it was at this riverside that Emperor Wu of Han once obtained a marvellous horse (Tujing). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.583](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.583) - [Next: 1.585](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.585) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037~en-mt.1.584) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.6.9) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.584](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.584) · Pramāṇa