三寶感應要略錄 2.116

2.116

前魏廢帝。甘露五年。汝門朱士行者。講小品經。或云。常講道行般若。每歎此譯理未盡。發跡長安。度流沙至于闐。得梵音正本九十章。彼國多小乘學者。譖於王曰。漢地沙門。欲以婆羅門書惑亂正法。何不焚之。聾盲漢地王之咎也。王即不聽齎經東去。士行因請燒之為驗。于時積薪殿前。畢而焚其經無損。王始歸信。士行寄經還國。竺叔蘭曇無羅叉譯。為放光般若者是也。

In the fifth year of Ganlu under the deposed emperor of the former Wei, Zhu Shixing of Rumen lectured on the Small Chapter [Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra]—or, as some say, regularly lectured on the Daoxing bore. He constantly lamented that this translation did not fully convey the principles. Setting out from Chang'an, he crossed the shifting sands and reached Khotan, where he obtained an authentic Sanskrit text of ninety chapters. In that country there were many scholars of the Lesser Vehicle, who slandered him to the king, saying: "A śramaṇa from the land of Han wishes to confuse and disrupt the True Dharma with a Brahman book. Why not burn it? Leaving the land of Han blind and deaf will be Your Majesty's fault." The king thereupon refused to permit him to carry the scripture east. Shixing therefore requested that it be burned as a test of truth. Firewood was then heaped in front of the palace hall. When burned, the scripture remained completely undamaged. The king only then placed faith in it. Shixing sent the scripture back to his home country; it was translated by Zhu Shulan and Mokṣala as the Light-Emitting Prajñāpāramitā (Fangguang bore).