華嚴經傳記 1.42

1.42

This is detailed in his own biography. Coming to the Later Wei, there was the North Indian Tripiṭaka Master Bodhiruci (in Wei called Xijue), who arrived here to translate. On the initial day of translation, Emperor Xuanwu personally served as the scribe for a day. It is also said that the Central Indian Tripiṭaka Master Ratnamati (in Wei called Baoyi) arrived here together with Bodhiruci, and to the north and south of the Luo River, each produced a translation. Thereafter, the Controller of Monks Huiguang requested the two worthy masters to compare the differences in detail and collate them into a single version. Furthermore, an alternate biography states that when Vasubandhu composed the commentary on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, he had not yet obtained the complete text; this Daśabhūmika may have been it, and he translated it as he obtained it. It also says that the Bodhisattva Asaṅga traveled back and forth to Tuṣita, where the Bodhisattva Maitreya instructed him in such scriptures as the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, and that its dissemination from there was likewise through his efforts. Recently, upon asking Indian monks and Tripiṭaka masters who arrived from the West, they all said that the Bodhisattva Vajrasena composed an explanatory commentary on the Daśabhūmika consisting of twelve thousand verses, which if translated would amount to more than thirty fascicles. Moreover, the Bodhisattva Sthiramati also composed a concise commentary; neither has yet been transmitted to this land. Manuscripts of them are seen to exist in the Kingdom of Khotan. When Śikṣānanda returned, a letter was already sent with him requesting them; if obtained, it is planned to translate them as well. In addition, the chapter on abodes within the Bodhisattvabhūmi of the Yogācārabhūmi extensively transcribes the text of the "Ten Grounds" chapter of this sūtra and systematically interprets it. This is truly because the divisions of the ranks of the three sages and ten saints in this sūtra are the most extensive; since it serves as a mirror for all other branches, those who compose commentaries on it are indeed not few.