景德傳燈錄 1.7

1.7

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.