[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) › 4.174 # 釋氏稽古略 4.174 釋氏稽古略 4.174 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.174) 心經　李覯字泰伯。盱江人。時稱大儒。至是皇祐二年。范文正公以表薦之。就門除一官。復差充太學說書。未幾而卒。泰伯初甞著潛書。又廣潛書。力於排佛。明教大師嵩公携所著輔教編謁之辯明。泰伯方留意讀佛經。乃悵然曰。吾輩議論尚未及一卷般若心經。佛道豈易知耶。其門下士黃漢傑者。以書詰其然。泰伯答之。略曰。民之欲善蓋其天性。古之儒者用於世。必有以教導之。民之耳目鼻口心知百體皆有所主。其異端何暇及哉。後之儒者用於世。則無以教導之。民之耳目鼻口心知百體皆無所主。舍浮圖何適哉（中溫文事）。心經凡三譯皆行於世。今泰伯所稱者乃唐太宗詔三藏法師玄奘所譯之本。五十四句二百六十七字。 > The \*Heart Sutra\*: Li Gou, courtesy name Taibo, was a man of Xujiang, praised in his time as a great Confucian. By this point, in the second year of Huangyou, Lord Fan Wenzheng recommended him in a memorial; right at his home gate he was appointed to an official post and further assigned to serve as Reader at the Imperial Academy. He died shortly thereafter. Taibo had initially composed the \*Qianshu\* and then expanded the \*Qianshu\*, exerting himself in refuting Buddhism. Great Master Mingjiao, the Venerable Song, carrying his own composition, the \*Fujiao bian\*, visited him to debate and clarify. Only then did Taibo turn his attention to reading Buddhist scriptures, and he sighed with regret, saying: "The discourses of our peers have not yet equaled even a single roll of the \*Prajñāpāramitā Heart Sutra\*. How could the Buddha's Path be easily comprehended?" His disciple Huang Hanjie questioned him about this by letter. Taibo replied, saying in brief: "That the people desire good is indeed their heaven-endowed nature. When the Confucians of antiquity were employed in the world, they certainly possessed that by which to instruct and guide them. The ears, eyes, nose, mouth, mental consciousness, and all the limbs of the people each had a master. How would they have had leisure to turn to heterodox paths? When the Confucians of later times are employed in the world, they have nothing with which to instruct and guide them. The ears, eyes, nose, mouth, mental consciousness, and all the limbs of the people have no master. Casting aside the Buddha, where else could they turn?" (from Wen Zhongwen's work). The \*Heart Sutra\* has three translations altogether, all circulating in the world. What Taibo referred to now is the version translated by Tripiṭaka Dharma Master Xuanzang by order of Emperor Taizong of the Tang, consisting of fifty-four phrases and two hundred sixty-seven characters. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.173) - [Next: 4.175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.175) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037~en-mt.4.174) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.174) · Pramāṇa