高僧傳 2.43

2.43

先是，沙門支法領於于闐得《華嚴》前分三萬六千偈，未有宣譯。至義熙十四年。吳郡內史孟顗、右衛將軍褚叔度，即請賢為譯匠。乃手執梵文，共沙門法業、慧嚴等百有餘人，於道場譯出。詮定文旨，會通華戎，妙得經意，故道場寺猶有華嚴堂焉。又沙門法顯於西域所得《僧祇律》梵本，復請賢譯為晉文，語在〈顯傳〉。其先後所出《觀佛三昧海》六卷、《泥洹》及《修行方便論》等，凡一十五部，一百十有七卷，並究其幽旨，妙盡文意。賢以元嘉六年卒，春秋七十有一矣。

Before this, the śramaṇa Zhi Faling had obtained the earlier portion of the Avataṃsaka in thirty-six thousand gāthās in Khotan, but it had not yet been translated. In the fourteenth year of Yixi, Meng Yi, Administrator of Wujun, and Chu Shudu, General of the Right Guard, invited [Buddhabhadra] to serve as the master translator. Holding the Sanskrit text in his hands, together with more than one hundred monks including the śramaṇas Faye and Huiyan, he translated it at Daochang Temple. They determined the purport of the text, harmonized the Chinese and foreign languages, and marvelously captured the meaning of the sūtra; thus Daochang Temple still has an Avataṃsaka Hall. Furthermore, for the Sanskrit text of the Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya obtained by the śramaṇa Faxian in the Western Regions, he again invited [Buddhabhadra] to translate it into the Jin language, the details of which are recorded in Faxian's biography. The texts he translated earlier and later include the Guanfo sanmei hai in six fascicles, the Niyuan, and the Xiuxing fangbian lun, totaling fifteen works in one hundred and seventeen fascicles. All of them investigated the profound purport and fully exhausted the subtle meaning of the text. [Buddhabhadra] died in the sixth year of Yuanjia, at the age of seventy-one.