唐護法沙門法琳別傳 1.11

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大王殿下。天挺英靈自然岐嶷。風神頴越器局含弘。好善為樂邁彼東平。溫易是歡更方西楚。加以阿衡百揆或序六條。德既褰帷仁兼裂網。開康莊之第。坐荀卿之賓。起修竹之園。醼文雅之客。莫不詩極緣情賦窮體物。信可譽形朝野美冠前英者焉。但琳等內顧闕如方圓寡用。念傅弈下愚之甚。實愧凡僧禿丁之誚。惡罵之極也罪莫大焉。自尊盧赫胥已來。天地開闢之後。未有如弈之狂悖者也。不任斷骨痛心之志。謹錄傅弈所上之事。輒述鄙辭。件答如左。塵黷威嚴。伏增殞絕。謹啟。武德六年五月二日。濟法寺沙門琳等啟上。時皇儲等。因奏法師之論。高祖異焉。故傅氏所陳。因而致寢。釋門再敞。寔賴我皇起子者商。法師有之矣。但傅氏所獻狂簡思媚闕庭。既而不愜所懷。陰施密譖搆扇黃領。穿鑿異端。遂使鼠璞混質於周邦。雞鳳濫形於楚國。玉石相亂朱紫難分。屢譖釋宗達于。

Before Your Royal Highness: You are endowed by Heaven with heroic brilliance, naturally sagacious from infancy; Your spiritual demeanor is remarkably preeminent, and Your capacity is broad and magnanimous. You take delight in doing good, surpassing the King of Dongping; You find joy in warmth and gentleness, outshining the King of Western Chu. Furthermore, You regulate the hundred offices like Yi Yin, and bring order to the six administrative branches. In virtue, You have already raised the carriage curtain to inquire of the people's needs; in benevolence, You have cut the nets to spare living beings. You have opened a mansion on broad avenues to seat guests like Xun Qing; You have laid out gardens of tall bamboo to banquet visitors of refined culture. There are none whose poems do not exhaust the expression of feelings, or whose rhapsodies do not thoroughly depict things. Truly, Your fame is manifested in both court and countryside, and Your excellence crowns the luminaries of the past! We, Lin and the others, reflect inwardly on our own inadequacies; square or round, we are of little utility. Considering how utterly foolish Fu Yi is, we truly feel ashamed at his reviling of ordinary monks as 'bald-headed fellows.' His vilification is extreme, and his offense could not be greater. Since the times of Zunlu and Hexu, and after the opening of heaven and earth, there has never been anyone as mad and perverse as Fu Yi! Unable to endure the grief that breaks our bones and pains our hearts, we have respectfully recorded the matters memorialized by Fu Yi, and have ventured to set forth our humble words, answering them item by item as follows below. Sullied before Your majestic presence, we humbly fall prostrate, overcome with trepidation. Respectfully presented: on the second day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Wude [623 CE], presented by the śramaṇa Lin and others of Jifa Monastery. At that time, the Crown Prince and others consequently memorialized the Master's treatise, and Gaozu marvelled at it. Thus, the memorial presented by Fu Yi was shelved as a result. That the gates of Śākyamuni were opened wide once more truly relied on our Crown Prince: 'He who can draw me out is Shang'—the Master possessed such capability! However, what Fu Yi presented was wild and reckless, seeking to curry favor with the court. Having failed to attain his desire, he secretly practiced clandestine calumny, instigating and fanning the flames against the Buddhist clergy, fabricating specious heresies. Consequently, rat-pelts were confused with jade in the state of Zhou, and pheasants were mistaken for phoenixes in the state of Chu; jade and stone were confounded, and vermilion and purple became difficult to distinguish. He repeatedly slandered the Buddhist lineage, reaching even to