[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [廬山記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095) › 1.2 # 廬山記 1.2 廬山記 1.2 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.1.2) 余昔者讀書山中。愛其泉石塔廟之　志之不詳遺古略近。或出於愚夫野老之語。言□辭贅。可取者無幾。將討論刪次之。未皇暇也。後二十年。讎書祕閣得廬山記。欣然以喜。以為夙願獲遂。而考其所載。疏略尤甚。熙寧五年。嘉禾陳令舉舜俞謫官山前。酷嗜遊覽。以六十日之力。盡南北高深之勝。晝行山間。援毫折簡。旁鈔四詰。小大弗擇。夜則發書攻之。至可傳而後已。其高下廣狹。山石水泉。與夫浮屠老子之宮廟。逸人達士之居舍。廢興衰盛。碑刻詩什。莫不畢載。而又作俯視之圖紀。尋山先後之次。泓泉塊石。無使遺者。成書凡五卷。後三年。余守吳興。令舉扁舟相過。以余山前之人也。出\[葶-丁+呆\]見授。請鏤諸板。藏之山間。會余蒙恩移濟南。遽與之別。令舉尋復物故。余益以事役。犇走四方。思一旋歸。茫不可得。輒序其譔述之勤貽。好事君子。庶幾成令舉之志。 > In former times, I studied in the mountains. I loved its springs, rocks, stūpas, and shrines, \[yet\] its treatises were not detailed, omitting antiquity and slighting the recent; or else they arose from the talk of foolish folk and rustic elders, their phrasing \[…\] and their words redundant, with little worth adopting. I intended to examine, edit, and arrange them, but had no leisure. Twenty years later, while collating books in the Secret Archives, I obtained a Record of Mount Lu and rejoiced with delight, thinking my long-cherished wish was fulfilled. Yet when examining what it recorded, it was especially crude and brief. In the fifth year of Xining, Chen Lingju Shunyu of Jiahe was demoted to an official post before the mountain. With a passion for excursions, using sixty days of exertion, he exhausted the scenic wonders of its north and south, its heights and depths. By day he walked among the mountains, wielding his brush and snapping slips, jotting down notes on every side and inquiring everywhere, neglecting neither the minor nor the major. By night he opened his books to research them, stopping only when they were fit to be transmitted. Their elevations and extents, mountain rocks and water springs, along with the shrines and temples of Buddhists and Daoists, the dwellings of recluses and men of understanding, their abandonment and revival, decay and prosperity, stele inscriptions and poetic verses—none were not fully recorded. Moreover, he made bird's-eye maps and records, tracing the mountain in sequential order; of deep springs and solitary stones, none was omitted. The finished work comprised five fascicles in all. Three years later, when I was prefect of Wuxing, Lingju crossed over in a small boat to visit me. Because I was a man from before the mountain, he brought out the manuscript to give to me, requesting that it be carved onto printing blocks and kept within the mountain. It coincided with my receiving imperial favor and being transferred to Jinan, so I hurriedly parted from him. Soon afterwards Lingju passed away. I became increasingly burdened by affairs, rushing about in all directions; longing for a single return, I found it utterly unattainable. I have therefore prefaced the diligence of his compilation to present it to gentlemen of noble curiosity, hoping perhaps to fulfill Lingju's aspiration. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.1.1) - [Next: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.1.3) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095~en-mt.1.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.1.2) · Pramāṇa