[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) › [唐護法沙門法琳別傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051) › 3.4 # 唐護法沙門法琳別傳 3.4 唐護法沙門法琳別傳 3.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051.3.4) 聖上神謀。達四聰於六合。皇衰叡鑒朗二曜於八紘。忽以鹿馬刺昌辰。麟麕譏哲后。斯焉可忍孰不可容。法師對曰。琳聞。白馬東旋。三藏創茲而起。青牛西逝。二篇自此而興。或闡玄玄以化民。或明空空而救物。驗之圖牒指掌可知。所以發唱顯宗終乎此世。釋教翻譯時代炳然。文史備彰黎民不惑。至如道家玄籍斯則不然。唯老子二篇李聃躬闡。自餘經教製雜凡情。何者。前漢時王褒造洞玄經。後漢時張陵造靈寶經及章醮等道書二十四卷。吳時葛孝先造上清經。晉時道士王浮造明威化胡經。又鮑靜造三皇經。後改為三清經。齊時道士陳顯明造六十四卷真步虛經。梁時陶弘景造大清經及章醮儀十卷。後周武帝滅二教時。有華州前道士張賓。詔授本州刺史。長安前道士焦子順。一名道抗。選得開府扶風令。前道士馬翼。雍州別駕李運等四人。以天和五年。於花州故城內守真寺。挑攬佛經。造道家偽經一千餘卷。時萬年縣人索皎裝潢。但是甄鸞笑道處。盡改除之。近如大業末年。有五通觀道士輔慧祥。三年不言。因改涅槃經為長安經。當時被約。不許出城門。家見內著黃衣。執送留守改經事發。為尚書衛文昇所奏。於金光門外被戮。耳目同驗。又甄鸞笑道論云。道家妄注諸子書。三百五十卷為道經。又撿玄都目錄。妄取藝文志書名。矯注八百八十四卷為道經。據此而言。足明虛謬。故知代代穿鑿狂簡寔繁。人人妄造斐然盈貫。琳又案。後魏正光元年。明帝召清通觀道士姜斌。與融覺寺僧曇謨最對論。斌時妄引開天經云。天師張陵所造。帝時勅遣大尉公丹陽王蕭綜。散騎常侍溫子昇等。一百七十人。共議云。老子正著五千文。西隱流沙更無言說。臣等所議。姜斌罪當惑眾。 > The sacred emperor, with divine calculations, extends his four perceptions throughout the universe; with his imperial majesty and sagacious insight, he makes the two luminaries shine brightly across the eight directions. Yet all at once, you used the deer and horse to slander this prosperous era, and used the qilin and roebuck to satirize our wise ruler! How can this be tolerated? Who could endure it?' > > The Dharma Master replied: 'Lin has heard that when the white horse turned eastward, the Tripiṭaka first arose; when the green ox departed to the west, the Two Chapters began from there. One expounds the profound and mysterious to transform the people; the other illuminates the double emptiness to save beings. This can be verified in charts and registers, clear as the palm of one's hand. Thus, the teachings proclaimed to reveal the tenets have reached this very generation. The translations of the Buddhist teachings have their eras clearly evident; the texts and histories are fully manifest, and the common people are not misled. As for the profound scriptures of the Daoists, this is not so. Only the Two Chapters of Laozi were personally expounded by Li Dan. All the other scriptures and teachings were fabricated through a mixture of worldly passions. Why is this? In the Former Han, Wang Bao fabricated the Dongxuan jing. In the Later Han, Zhang Ling fabricated the Lingbao jing as well as Daoist writings of petitions and offerings in twenty-four rolls. In the Wu, Ge Xiaoxian fabricated the Shangqing jing. In the Jin, the Daoist Wang Fu fabricated the Mingwei huahu jing. Furthermore, Bao Jing fabricated the Sanhuang jing, which was later changed into the Sanqing jing. In the Qi, the Daoist Chen Xianming fabricated the Zhen buxu jing in sixty-four rolls. In the Liang, Tao Hongjing fabricated the Daqing jing and Ritual of Petitions and Offerings in ten rolls. When Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou eradicated the two teachings, there was a former Daoist of Huazhou, Zhang Bin, who was appointed by decree as Inspector of that prefecture. The former Daoist of Chang'an, Jiao Zishun, also named Daokang, was selected and appointed Left Assistant of the Kaifu and Magistrate of Fufeng. The former Daoist Ma Yi and the Administrative Assistant of Yongzhou, Li Yun—these four persons, in the fifth year of Tianhe, at Shouzhen Monastery inside the old city of Huazhou, selected and extracted Buddhist sūtras and fabricated more than one thousand rolls of spurious Daoist scriptures. At that time, Suo Jiao, a man of Wannian County, mounted and bound them. Wherever Zhen Luan had laughed at them in his Xiaodao lun, they altered and eliminated everything. Recently, in the late years of Daye, there was Fu Huixiang, a Daoist of Wutong Abbey, who did not speak for three years; he thereupon changed the Nirvāṇa Sūtra into the Chang'an jing. At that time, under restrictive bond, he was not permitted to leave the city gate. His family saw that inside he wore yellow garments, and they seized him and handed him over to the garrison authority. The matter of his altering scriptures came to light; he was memorialized by the Minister of the Department of State Affairs Wei Wensheng and was executed outside the Jinguang Gate. Both ears and eyes witnessed this truth. Furthermore, Zhen Luan's Xiaodao lun says that Daoists falsely annotated three hundred and fifty rolls of the writings of the various philosophers to make Daoist scriptures. Moreover, checking the Xuandu Catalogue, they falsely took book titles from the Yiwen zhi and deceitfully annotated eight hundred and eighty-four rolls to make Daoist scriptures. Based on this, it is sufficient to prove their falsehood and error. Thus one knows that, generation after generation, forced interpretations and eccentric deviations have truly been numerous, and people's reckless forgeries have accumulated in profusion. Lin has also investigated: in the first year of Zhengguang of the Northern Wei, Emperor Ming summoned Jiang Bin, a Daoist of Qingtong Abbey, to debate with Śramaṇa Tanmozui of Rongjue Monastery. At that time, Bin falsely cited the Kaitian jing, claiming that it was fabricated by the Celestial Master Zhang Ling. The Emperor then decreed that the Grand Commandant and Prince of Danyang Xiao Zong, the Sanqi Changshi Wen Zisheng, and others—one hundred and seventy persons—should jointly deliberate. They said: "Laozi only wrote the five thousand characters; he hid in the West amid the drifting sands, and made no further statements. In our deliberation, Jiang Bin's crime warrants punishment for deluding the masses." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051.3.3) - [Next: 3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051.3.5) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051~en-mt.3.4) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.67) — 道世, Classical Chinese - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12.30) — Classical Chinese - [辯正論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.8.73) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051.3.4) · Pramāṇa