三寶感應要略錄 1.75

1.75

毘盧遮那如來說大悲胎藏曼陀羅王救護一切眾生金剛手傳受佛教。經數百年。傳付中印度世無厭寺達磨掬多。多謹傳弘。付斛飯王五十二代玄孫釋善無畏。無畏開元七年。從西國將曼陀羅圖來至此國。於玄宗皇帝朝為國師。翻譯大教大曼陀羅。設大旦場。諸尊放光。天雨細花而供養。其得感者。不可單記矣。

Vairocana Tathāgata preached the Great Compassion Garbhadhātu Maṇḍala King to rescue and protect all sentient beings, and Vajrapāṇi transmitted and received the Buddha's teaching. After several hundred years, it was transmitted to Dharmagupta of the Nalendra Monastery in Central India. Gupta carefully transmitted and propagated it, bestowing it upon the monk Śubhakarasiṃha, a fifty-second-generation descendant of King Droṇodana. In the seventh year of the Kaiyuan era, Śubhakarasiṃha brought the maṇḍala drawings from the Western Countries to this land. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, he served as Imperial Preceptor, translating the Great Teaching and the Great Maṇḍala and establishing a great altar site. The honoured deities emitted light, and heaven rained fine flowers in offering. Those who received sympathetic responses cannot be recorded individually.