宋高僧傳 3.17

3.17

Śramaṇa Utpalavīrya (*Vutitixianyu) was called Lianhua Jingjin in Chinese. He was originally a native of the city of Quzhi—that is, the kingdom of Qiuci (Kucha), also called Qiuci, properly named Quzhi. At that time, when the Tang envoy Che Fengchao arrived in that land, outside the west gate of the city there was Lianhua Temple, where Jingjin resided with the title of Tripiṭaka bhikṣu. Fengchao made a sincere request to open and translate the Sanskrit bundles to transmit them back to the Eastern Xia. Jingjin consented and thereupon translated the Shili jing (Daśabala Sūtra), which takes three sheets of eastern paper to form one scroll, spoken by the Buddha in Śrāvastī. Within the territory of Anxi there is Mount Qianjian, at the foot of which is a monastery where the water drips, creating an enchanting sound. Each year at a certain season, the people there gather its sounds to compose tunes. Thus, the piece *Yeboseji was used in the Kaiyuan era as a tune for the hourglass drum (jiegu), the musicians finding its drumming technique most difficult. Jingjin's temple was near these dripping waters. This scripture, together with the Shidi jing (Daśabhūmika Sūtra) and the Huixianglun jing, making eleven scrolls in total, was brought and presented by the śramaṇa Wukong. In the Zhenyuan era, it was requested to be entered into the canon; as it coincided with Yuanchao's continuation of the catalogue, its origins were recorded accordingly.