高僧傳 2.28

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卑摩羅叉，此云無垢眼，罽賓人。沈靖有志力，出家履道，苦節成務。先在龜茲，弘闡律藏，四方學者，競往師之，鳩摩羅什時亦預焉。及龜茲陷沒，乃避地焉。頃之，聞什在長安大弘經藏，又欲使毘尼勝品，復洽東國，於是杖錫流沙，冒險東入，以偽秦弘始八年達自關中，什以師禮敬待，叉亦以遠遇欣然。及羅什棄世，叉乃出遊關左，逗於壽春止，石澗寺。律眾雲聚，盛闡毘尼。羅什所譯《十誦》本，五十八卷，最後一誦，謂明受戒法，及諸成善法事，逐其義要，名為《善誦》。叉後齎往石㵎，開為六十一卷，最後一誦，改為《毘尼誦》，故猶二名存焉。

Vimalākṣa, translated here as 'Flawless Eye' (Wugouyan), was a man of Kashmir. He was calm and quiet, with resolve and strength; he left home to tread the Path, fulfilling his tasks through ascetic discipline. Earlier, while in Kucha, he propagated the Vinayapiṭaka; scholars from the four quarters vied to go and take him as their master, and Kumārajīva was also among them at that time. When Kucha fell, he took refuge elsewhere. Shortly after, hearing that Kumārajīva was greatly propagating the sūtrapiṭaka in Chang'an, and wishing also to have the supreme division of the Vinaya reach the eastern land once again, he took his tin staff across the shifting sands, braved danger, and entered the east. In the eighth year of the Hongshi era of the illegitimate Qin, he arrived from within the passes. Kumārajīva treated him with the respect due to a teacher, and Vimalākṣa was also joyful to meet him from afar. When Kumārajīva passed away, Vimalākṣa traveled east of the passes, pausing in Shouchun and residing at the Shijian Temple. The Vinaya assembly gathered like clouds, and he vigorously expounded the Vinaya. The translation of the Daśabhāṇavāra by Kumārajīva consisted of fifty-eight fascicles; its final bhāṇavāra, which clarified the methods of receiving the precepts and various matters that accomplish wholesome dharmas, was named the 'Wholesome Recitation' (Shansong) according to its essential meaning. Vimalākṣa later took it to Shijian, expanding it into sixty-one fascicles, and changed the final bhāṇavāra to the 'Vinaya Recitation' (Binisong); therefore, both names still survive.