[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) › [弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102) › 1.2 # 弘明集 1.2 弘明集 1.2 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.1.2) 夫覺海無涯。慧境圓照。化妙域中。實陶鑄於堯舜。理擅繫表。乃埏埴乎周孔矣。然道大信難。聲高和寡。須彌峻而藍風起。寶藏積而怨賊生。昔如來在世化震大千。猶有四魔稸忿六師懷毒。況乎像季其可勝哉。自大法東漸。歲幾五百。緣各信否。運亦崇替。正見者敷讚。邪惑者謗訕。至於守文曲儒。則拒為異教。巧言左道。則引為同法。拒有拔本之迷。引有朱紫之亂。遂令詭論稍繁訛辭孔熾。夫鶡旦鳴夜。不翻白日之光。精衛銜石。無損滄海之勢。然以闇亂明。以小罔大。雖莫動毫髮。而有塵眡聽。將令弱植之徒隨偽辯而長迷。倒置之倫逐邪說而永溺。此幽塗所以易墜。淨境所以難陟者也。祐以末學。志深弘護靜言浮俗憤慨于心。遂以藥疾微間山棲餘暇。撰古今之明篇。總道俗之雅論。其有刻意剪邪建言衛法。製無大小莫不畢採。又前代勝士書記文述。有益亦皆編錄。類聚區分。列為一十四卷。夫道以人弘。教以文明。弘道明教。故謂之弘明集。兼率淺懷附論于末。庶以涓埃微裨瀛岱。但學孤識寡。愧在褊局。博練君子。惠增廣焉。 > Now, the ocean of awakening is boundless, and the realm of wisdom shines perfectly. Its subtle transforming influence within the realm \[of mortals\] was truly moulded and cast by Yao and Shun; its principle, presiding beyond the tether \[of words\], was shaped and fashioned by the Duke of Zhou and Confucius. Yet the Dao is great and hard to trust; the pitch is high and few can harmonize. When Sumeru is towering, the blue gale arises; when precious treasures accumulate, resentful thieves appear. Formerly, when the Tathāgata was in the world, his transformative teaching shook the great chiliocosm, yet there were still the four Māras harboring anger and the six masters harboring poison—how much more so in the latter days of the Semblance Dharma! Can they ever be overcome? Ever since the Great Dharma flowed eastward, nearly five hundred years have passed. As conditions \[varied\], each either believed or did not, and its fortunes also prospered and declined. Those with right view expounded and praised it; those who were deluded and perverted slandered and mocked it. As for pedantic, crooked scholars, they rejected it as an alien teaching; while the sweet-tongued followers of heterodox paths cited it as their own doctrine. The rejection led to the delusion of uprooting the foundation; the citation caused the disorder of confusing vermilion with purple. Consequently, deceitful arguments grew increasingly tangled, and erroneous statements blazed furiously. Now, a night-bird crying in the night cannot blot out the light of the bright sun; a Jingwei bird bearing stones in its beak cannot diminish the vastness of the azure sea. Yet by using darkness to confuse brightness, and using the petty to deceive the great, though not a single hair is stirred, the sight and hearing are defiled. This causes those of feeble footing to follow false eloquence and remain long deluded, and causes inverted sorts to pursue deviant discourses and drown forever. This is why the obscure paths are easy to fall into, and the pure realm is difficult to ascend. Sengyou, with my meagre learning, have a profound aspiration to broadly protect \[the Dharma\]. Reflecting in tranquility upon the ephemeral secular world, indignation stirs in my heart. Thereupon, during brief respites from illness and leisure moments of dwelling in the mountains, I have compiled illuminating writings of past and present and gathered together the refined treatises of both monastics and the laity. Where there are those who set their minds upon cutting down perversion and establishing words to defend the Dharma, regardless of whether their works are large or small, all have been selected without exception. Furthermore, where the letters, records, and literary compositions of pre-eminent figures of previous generations are beneficial, all have been edited and recorded. Arranged into categories and divided into sections, they are set out in fourteen fascicles. Now, the Dao is made broad by human beings, and teachings are made brilliant by culture. Broadening the Dao and making the teachings brilliant—hence it is titled Hongming ji (Collection Spreading the Light \[of Buddhism\]). In addition, I have brought together my own modest reflections and appended a treatise at the end, hoping to add a speck of dust or a drop of water to Mount Tai and the vast sea. Yet my learning is isolated and my knowledge sparse; I am ashamed of my narrow limitations. May gentlemen of broad mastery kindly augment and expand it! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.1.1) - [Next: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.1.3) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102~en-mt.1.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.1.2) · Pramāṇa