景德傳燈錄 1.7

1.7

皇上睿文繼志而序聖教繹宗風。煥雲章於義天。振金聲於覺苑。蓮藏之言密契。竺乾之緒克昌。殖眾善者滋多。傳了義者間出。圓頓之化流於區域。有東吳僧道原者。冥心禪悅。索隱空宗。披弈世之祖圖。采諸方之語錄。次序其源派。錯綜其辭句。由七佛以至大法眼之嗣。凡五十二世。一千七百一人。成三十卷。目之曰景德傳燈錄。詣闕奉進冀於流布。

His August Majesty, wise and cultured, succeeded to their aspirations, prefacing the holy teachings and unraveling the tradition of the school. He caused cloud-like compositions to shine in the sky of meaning, and sounded golden tones in the garden of enlightenment. His words secretly accorded with the Lotus Treasury, and the lineage from India flourished greatly. Those who planted myriad goods grew ever more numerous; those who transmitted the definitive meaning appeared from time to time. The transformation of the complete and sudden teaching flowed throughout the realm. There was a monk of Eastern Wu named Daoyuan, who absorbed his mind in the joy of meditation and sought the hidden mysteries of the emptiness school. Unrolling the ancestral charts of successive generations, he gathered the recorded sayings of all quarters. He arranged their sources and branches in order, and organized their words and phrases. From the seven Buddhas down to the heirs of the Great Fayan, there were fifty-two generations and one thousand seven hundred and one persons in total, forming thirty fascicles, entitled the Record of the Transmission of the Lamp Compiled in the Jingde Era. He went to the palace gate and presented it, hoping for its wide circulation.