[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) › 6.10 # 宋高僧傳 6.10 宋高僧傳 6.10 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.6.10) 釋慧苑，京兆人也。少而秀異，蔚有茂才，厭彼塵寰，投于淨域，禮華嚴法藏為師。陶神練性，未幾深達法義，號上首門人也。有勤無惰，內外該通，華嚴一宗，尤成精博。苑依《寶性論》立四種教，為有四類不識如來藏，如生盲人，則凡夫、聲聞、辟支、初心菩薩也。一迷真異執教，當凡夫；二真一分半教，當二乘；三真一分滿教，當初心菩薩；四真具滿教，當識如來藏者也。諸師處判，或依或違，然其綱領教乘一家之說。次以新譯之經未有音釋，披讀之者取決無從。遂博覽經書，恢張詁訓，撰成二卷，俾初學之流不遠求師，覽無滯句，旋曉字源。然稟從賢首之門，不負庭訓之美也。 > Shi Huiyuan was a native of the Capital Region (Jingzhao). Outstanding and exceptional from his youth, he possessed luxuriant talent. Disgusted with the dusty realm, he turned toward the Pure Realm and took Fazang of the Huayan school as his teacher. Nurturing his spirit and training his nature, before long he attained a profound penetration of the Dharma's doctrines, being termed the foremost disciple. Diligent without indolence, he was thoroughly versed in both internal and external learning, and in the Huayan school in particular he became profoundly learned. Drawing upon the Ratnagotravibhāga, Yuan established four kinds of teachings, based on the four classes of persons who do not recognize the tathāgatagarbha, like people born blind: namely, ordinary beings, śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and newly aspiring bodhisattvas. The first is the teaching of deluded attachments to unreality, corresponding to ordinary beings; the second is the half-teaching of one portion of the real, corresponding to the two vehicles; the third is the full-teaching of one portion of the real, corresponding to newly aspiring bodhisattvas; the fourth is the complete and perfect teaching of the real, corresponding to those who recognize the tathāgatagarbha. Various masters made classifications that either agreed or differed with this, yet his outline served as the doctrine of his own lineage within the vehicles of the teachings. Next, as the newly translated scriptures lacked phonetic glosses and readers had nowhere to turn for determination, he read widely in scriptures and books, expanding explanations and glosses, and compiled a work in two rolls, so that beginners would not need to seek teachers afar, would encounter no obstructive phrases, and would immediately understand the origins of characters. Thus, having received his lineage from the gate of Xianshou, he did not fall short of the excellence of his master's instruction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.6.9) - [Next: 6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.6.11) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061~en-mt.6.10) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.6.10) · Pramāṇa