[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) › [天台九祖傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069) › 1.2 # 天台九祖傳 1.2 天台九祖傳 1.2 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069.1.2) 吾宗九世祖師示生東西兩土。前後出興相去賒遠。故感應垂迹之事散在經傳。儻非博覽則不可得而詳也。以山家傳習者。而於祖師功德。罕測厥由。於乎先儒有言。其先祖無美而稱之。是誣也。有善而弗知。不明也。知而弗傳。不仁也。此三者君子之所恥也。而況於學教之人乎。愚忝末裔。姑欲逃其弗傳之責。謹搜羅載籍。備錄于右。以貽後賢。顗弘贊無窮。思齊有地。而不為無補矣。時嘉定改元臘月望日。寓竺峯凝翠軒序。 > The nine generations of patriarchs of our lineage manifested their births across both the Eastern and Western lands. Appearing and flourishing before and after one another, they were separated by vast stretches of time and distance; consequently, the accounts of their spiritual responses and manifested traces are scattered throughout scriptures and biographies. Unless one is extensively well-read, they cannot be known in detail. Because of this, practitioners in the lineage of the Mountain School rarely fathom the origins of their patriarchs' meritorious virtues. Alas! The earlier Confucians had a saying: 'To praise an ancestor who has no excellence is slander; to be unaware of the goodness \[they had\] is ignorance; to know of it and not transmit it is unbenevolent.' These three things are what the noble person feels ashamed of; how much more so, then, for those who study the teachings? This foolish one, unworthy though I am among the latter descendants, simply wishes to avoid the fault of not transmitting \[them\]. I have carefully collected records from the texts and recorded them fully above, so as to bequeath them to later worthy ones. May the boundless propagation and exaltation \[of the teaching\] have ground from which to emulate their virtues, and thus not be without benefit. Prefaced on the full moon day of the twelfth month in the first year of the Jiading era \[1208 CE\], while residing at the Ningcui Pavilion of Zhufeng. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069.1.1) - [Next: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069.1.3) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069~en-mt.1.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069.1.2) · Pramāṇa