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大唐西域記 5.24-25

大唐西域記 5.24-25

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Classical Chinese

5.24

髮、爪窣堵波北,伽藍餘趾,昔經部室利邏多(唐言勝受)論師於此製造經部《毘婆沙論》。

To the north of this stûpa are the ruins of a sanghârâma. here that Srilabdha (Shi-li-lo-to), a master of sastras belonging to the Sautrantika school, composed the Vibhasha Sastra of that school. To the south-west of the city 5 or 6 li, in an extensive grove of Amra trees, is an old sangharama; this is where Asanga Bodhisattva pursued his studies and directed the men of the age. Asanga Bodhisattva went up by night to the palace of Maitreya Bodhisattva, and there received the Yogacharya Sastra, the Mahayana Sutralankaratika, the Madhyanta Vibhanga Sastra, &c., and afterwards declared these to the great congregation, in their deep principles.

Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World

5.25

城西南五六里大菴沒羅林中,有故伽藍,是阿僧伽(唐言無著)菩薩請益導凡之處。無著菩薩夜昇天宮,於慈氏菩薩所受《瑜伽師地論》、《莊嚴大乘經論》、《中邊分別論》等,晝為大眾講宣妙理。菴沒羅林西北百餘步,有如來髮、爪窣堵波。其側故基,是世親菩薩從覩史多天下見無著菩薩處。

North-west of the Amra grove about a hundred paces is a stupa containing relics of the hair and nails of Tathagata. By its side are some old foundation walls. This is where Vasubandhu Bodhisattva descended from the Tushita heaven and beheld Asanga Bodhisattva. Asanga Bodhisattva was a man of Gandhara. He was born in the middle of the thousand years following the departure of Buddha from the world; and possessed of deep spiritual insight, he soon acquired a knowledge of the doctrine (of Buddha). He became a professed disciple, and attached himself to the school of the Mahisasakas, but afterwards altered his views and embraced the teaching of the Great Vehicle. His brother, Vasubandhu Bodhisattva, belonged to the school of the Sarvastivadins, and had inherited a wide fame, with a strong intelligence and penetrating wisdom and remarkable acumen. The disciple was Buddhasimha, a man whose secret conduct was unfathomable, of high talent and wide renown. These two or three worthies had often talked together in this way: "We all are engaged in framing our conduct so as to enjoy the presence of Maitreya after death. Whoever of us first dies and obtains the condition (of life), let him come and communicate it to us, that we may know his arrival there."

Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World

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