宋高僧傳 3.32

3.32

釋滿月者，西域人也。爰來震旦，務在翻傳。瑜伽法門，一皆貫練，既多神効，眾所推欽。開成中，進梵夾，遇偽甘露事去未旋踵，朝廷無復紀綱，不暇翻譯。時悟達國師知玄好學聲明，禮月為師，情相欵密，指教梵字并音字之緣界，悉曇、八轉，深得幽趣。玄曰：「异哉，吾體兩方之言，願參象胥之末，可乎？」因請翻諸禁呪，乃與菩提嚩日羅、金剛悉地等重譯出《陀羅尼集》四卷，又《佛為毘戌陀天子說尊勝經》一卷，詳覈三復，曲盡佛意。此土先已有《陀羅尼集》十二卷，新翻四卷，未聞入藏。月等俱不測其終。次有般若斫迦三藏者，華言智慧輪，亦西域人。大中中，行大曼拏羅法，已受灌頂為阿闍梨，善達方言，深通密語，著《佛法根本》。宗乎大毘盧遮那，為諸佛所依。法之根本者，陀羅尼是也。至於出生無邊法門，學者修戒、定、慧以總持助成，速疾之要，無以超越。又述《示教指歸》共一十餘言，皆大教之鈐鍵也，出弟子紹明，咸通年中刻石記傳焉。

Shi Manyue was a man of the Western Regions. When he came to China, his purpose lay in translating and propagating the teachings. He had mastered all the practices of the Yoga method, and having achieved many miraculous results, he was widely venerated and admired. During the Kaicheng reign period, he presented Sanskrit birch-bark leaves; it happened that the Ganlu Incident had just occurred and the imperial court was devoid of order and discipline, having no leisure for translation. At that time, National Preceptor Wuda, Zhixuan, loved the study of phonetics and linguistics (śabdavidyā) and revered Manyue as his master; the two grew deeply intimate. Manyue instructed him in the Sanskrit script as well as the bounds and conditions of phonetics and letters, the siddhaṃ script, and the eight declensional cases, so that Zhixuan deeply grasped their profound subtleties. Zhixuan said, "How marvelous! I understand the tongues of both regions; might I be permitted to join the ranks of interpreters?" He then requested that various dharani spells be translated, and together with Bodhivajra, Vajrasiddhi, and others, they re-translated the Collection of Dhāraṇīs (Tuoluoni ji) in four fascicles, and also the Scripture of the Victorious One Spoken by the Buddha for Prince Viśuddhadeva (Fo wei Pixutuotianzi shuo zunsheng jing) in one fascicle. They scrutinized and re-examined the text three times, exhausting every nuance of the Buddha's intent. In this land there had previously been a twelve-fascicle Collection of Dhāraṇīs; of these newly translated four fascicles, it is not recorded that they entered the Tripiṭaka. Where Manyue and his companions ended their lives remains unknown. Next there was the Tripiṭaka master Prajñācakra, in Chinese Zhihuilun (Wheel of Wisdom), who was likewise a man of the Western Regions. During the Dazhong reign period, he practiced the Great Maṇḍala rituals; having already received consecration (abhiṣeka) to become an ācārya, he was well-versed in local dialects and deeply penetrated esoteric speech, authoring The Root of the Buddha's Dharma (Fofa genben). Taking Mahāvairocana as its doctrine, it serves as that upon which all Buddhas rely. The root of the Dharma is precisely the dhāraṇī. As for producing boundless doors to the Dharma, practitioners cultivate morality, concentration, and wisdom, using dhāraṇī to assist in their accomplishment; as an essential means of swift attainment, nothing surpasses it. He also composed Instructions on Pointing the Way (Shijiao zhigui) in more than ten sections, all of which are key locks to the Great Teaching. Transmitted by his disciple Shaoming, it was carved on stone to record and hand down during the Xiantong reign period.