[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) › [宋高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061) › 5.31 # 宋高僧傳 5.31 宋高僧傳 5.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.5.31) 釋慧琳、姓裴氏，疎勒國人也。始事不空三藏，為室灑，內持密藏，外究儒流，印度聲明，支那詁訓，靡不精奧。甞謂翻梵成華，華皆典故，典故則西乾細語也。遂引用《字林》、《字統》、《聲類》、《三蒼》、《切韻》、《玉篇》、諸經雜史，參合佛意，詳察是非，撰成《大藏音義》一百卷。起貞元四年迄元和五載，方得絕筆，貯其本于西明藏中。京邑之間，一皆宗仰。琳以元和十五年庚子卒於所住，春秋八十四矣。殆大中五年，有奏請入藏流行。近以海中高麗國，雖三韓夷族，偏尚釋門，周顯德中，遣使齎金入浙中求慧琳《經音義》，時無此本，故有闕如。 > Shi Huilin, whose secular surname was Pei, was a native of the kingdom of Kashgar (Shule). At first he served Tripiṭaka Master Amoghavajra as his disciple (śiṣya), inwardly upholding the esoteric treasury and outwardly investigating the Confucian currents; in Indian phonology (śabdavidyā) and Chinese glosses and phonetics, there was nothing he did not master profoundly. He once said that when translating Sanskrit into Chinese, the Chinese renderings are all allusions, and allusions are the delicate locutions of the Western Lands. Thereupon, citing the Zilin, Zitong, Shenglei, Sancang, Qieyun, Yupian, as well as various scriptures and miscellaneous histories, he harmonized them with the Buddha's intent, closely examined what was right and wrong, and compiled the Sound and Meaning of the Tripiṭaka (Dazang yinyi) in one hundred rolls. Starting in the fourth year of the Zhenyuan era, it was not until the fifth year of the Yuanhe era that he finished his brushwork, depositing the text in the library of Ximing Temple. Throughout the capital, all took him as an authority. In the fifteenth year of the Yuanhe era (gengzi), Lin died in his quarters at the age of eighty-four. In the fifth year of the Dazhong era, a memorial requested that it be admitted into the canon and circulated. Recently, the kingdom of Goryeo in the sea—though a barbarian tribe of the Samhan—has favored the Buddhist order. During the Xiande era of the Zhou dynasty, it sent envoys bearing gold to Zhejiang to seek Huilin's Sound and Meaning of Scriptures, but at that time no copies were available, so it was missing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.5.30) - [Next: 5.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.5.32) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061~en-mt.5.31) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.5.31) · Pramāṇa