釋氏稽古略 3.54

3.54

慈恩教　初天竺國無著大士。頻昇知足天宮。咨參慈氏唯識宗旨。及其弟天親菩薩生西度羅閱國。發明大乘。遂相與製論。天竺代有聖賢出弘其教。至正法藏戒賢論師。西天中印度人。年一百有三歲。居王舍城國之那蘭陀寺。會三藏玄奘至。賢遂以瑜伽師地唯識宗旨授。奘東歸。奘以授窺基。基乃網羅舊說廣製疏論。學者宗之。謂之三車法相顯理宗慈恩教。

The Cien Teaching: In the beginning, the Great Being Asaṅga of India frequently ascended to the Tuṣita Heaven palace to inquire about and receive the essential tenets of Maitreya's Vijñaptimātra. When his younger brother, Bodhisattva Vasubandhu, was born in the western regions at Rājagṛha, he elucidated the Mahāyāna, and they subsequently composed treatises together. In India, sages and worthies appeared across generations to propagate this teaching. It came down to the Treatise Master Śīlabhadra, the Treasury of the True Dharma, who was a native of Central India in the Western Heavens. At the age of one hundred and three, he resided at Nālandā Monastery in the kingdom of Rājagṛha. Just then, Tripiṭaka Master Xuanzang arrived, and Śīlabhadra bestowed upon him the tenets of the Yogācārabhūmi and Vijñaptimātra. Xuanzang returned to the east and transmitted them to Kuiji. Ji then gathered the old explanations and broadly composed commentaries and treatises. Scholars took him as their authority, calling it the Three-Cart Dharma-Character school that reveals the principle, the Cien Teaching.