宋高僧傳 3.8

3.8

釋阿儞真那，華言寶思惟，北印度迦濕密羅國人，剎帝利種。幼而捨家，禪誦為業。進具之後，專精律品，而慧解超群，學兼真俗。乾文、呪術，尤攻其妙。加以化導為心，無戀鄉國。以天后長壽二年，屆于洛都，勅於天宮寺安置。即以其年創譯至中宗神龍景午，於佛授記、天宮、福先等寺出《不空罥索陀羅尼經》等七部。睿宗太極元年四月，太子洗馬張齊賢等繕寫進內。其年六月，勅令禮部尚書晉國公薛稷、右常侍高平侯徐彥伯等詳定入目施行。那自神龍之後，不務翻譯，唯精勤禮誦，修諸福業。每於晨朝磨香為水，塗浴佛像，後方飲食。從始洎終，此為恒業。衣鉢之外，隨得隨施。後於龍門山請置一寺，制度皆依西域，因名「天竺」焉。門徒學侶同居此寺，精誠所感，靈應寔繁。壽百有餘歲，以開元九年終於寺，構塔旌表焉。

Shi Ajina, translated into Chinese as Baosiwei [Ratnacinta], was a native of the Kingdom of Kaśmīra in North India, born of the kṣatriya caste. Leaving home in his childhood, he made dhyāna and recitation his life’s work. After taking full ordination, he devoted himself strictly to the vinaya rules; his wisdom and understanding surpassed the ordinary, and his learning spanned both ultimate and conventional truths. In astrology and incantations, he was especially adept in their subtleties. In addition, his heart was set on converting and guiding others, without lingering affection for his home country. In the second year of the Changshou era of the Heavenly Empress [693], he arrived in the capital of Luoyang and was accommodated by imperial decree at the Tiangong Temple. From that year, when he commenced translating, until the bingwu year, the second year of the Shenlong era under Zhongzong [706], he produced seven works at temples such as Foshouji, Tiangong, and Fuxian, including the Amoghapāśa-dhāraṇī-sūtra. In the fourth month of the first year of the Taiji era under Ruizong [712], Zhang Qixian, the Heir Apparent's Washer of Horses, and others copied them and presented them to the court. In the sixth month of that year, an imperial decree commanded Xue Ji, Minister of Rites and Duke of the State of Jin, and Xu Yanbo, Senior Gentleman of the Attendants and Marquis of Gaoping, to scrutinize, finalize, and incorporate them into the canon for propagation. After the Shenlong era, [Ratnacinta] no longer engaged in translation, but devoted himself purely and diligently to prostrations, recitation, and cultivating works of merit. Every morning, he would grind incense into water to bathe the Buddha images before taking food and drink. From beginning to end, this was his constant practice. Except for his robes and bowl, whatever he obtained he gave away immediately. Later, he requested permission to establish a monastery on Mount Longmen, designed entirely in accordance with Western standards, and therefore named ‘Tianzhu’ [India]. His disciples and fellow students lived together in this monastery; moved by their sincerity, spiritual responses were exceedingly numerous. Reaching an age of over one hundred years, he died at the monastery in the ninth year of the Kaiyuan era [721], where a stūpa was erected to commemorate him.