華嚴經傳記 1.47

1.47

文永十二年乙亥正月中旬之候。為聽聞五教章三十講。暫拪息栂尾高山寺之處。自彼寺住侶惠日房辨清之手。借得華嚴傳五卷點本之間。喜悅銘肝之餘。下向南都之後。誂能書之輩令書寫。此傳之內。當卷者。表誂中川玄蓮房。裏託春日山麓四恩院願忍房覺玄。令書寫之彼院家院主如圓房朝海令付假名并指姓等。此假名姓裏書者。土御門大納言入道顯定卿之所記錄也。即以彼禪門自筆點本寫之可為無雙之證本也而已。

During the middle of the first month in the twelfth year of Bun'ei (wood-boar year, 1275), while staying temporarily at Kōzan-ji at Toganoo to listen to the thirty lectures on the Treatise on the Five Teachings (Wujiaozhang), I borrowed the five-fascicle punctuated exemplar of the Records of the Transmission of the Avataṃsaka from the hand of Benkei of the Nichiryō quarters of that temple. Overflowing with joy deeply engraved in my heart, after going down to the Southern Capital, I commissioned skilled scribes to copy it. Within this transmission, for the present fascicle, the front text was commissioned to Genren-bō of Nakagawa, and the reverse text was entrusted to Kakugen of Gennin-bō at Shi'on-in at the foot of Mount Kasuga to be copied. As for Jōkai of Nyoen-bō, head of that sub-temple, he was made to add kana and indicate surnames. The notes on kana and surnames on the reverse were recorded by Lord Akisada, the Lay Monk and Major Counselor of Tsuchimikado. Copying directly from that Zen layman's own punctuated exemplar makes this an unequaled witness manuscript.