廣弘明集 13.138

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外論曰。夫孝為德本。人倫所先。莫大之宗固惟恃怙。昊天之澤豈曰能酬。故生盡溫清之恭。終備墳陵之禮。今佛垂訓必令棄爾骸骨捐茲草野多出財賄營我塔廟。遂使愚夫惑亂廢茲典禮考妣棺柩曾無封樹之心（彈曰。觀夫上皇之世。不行殯葬之禮。始於堲周窀穸之事。故有藤緘槥櫝瓦掩虞棺。皆起於中古也暨周文之日。以骸骨暴露於野。因收而藏之始行葬禮故云。葬者藏也。欲人之所不見。是以夫子病篤。門人欲厚葬之孔子聞曰。吾其欺天乎當選不毛之地。不封不樹唯棘唯欒。言俯同末世行於葬禮。蓋未能免俗）戎狄屍靈翻盡雕莊之妙。且神不享非其族。物不祀非其先。不敬其親而敬他人。其此謂矣。且水葬火葬風俗不同。埋屍露屍鄉邦本異。捨己徇。他用為求福。豈知土壤斯異。各自而然。世不能知。其迷六也。

The external treatise says: Filial piety is the root of virtue and the foremost of human relations; the greatest ancestral lineage is solely based on relying on father and mother. How could one ever repay the grace of vast Heaven? Thus, in life one exhausts the reverence of keeping them warm in winter and cool in summer; at their end, one fully prepares the rituals of tomb and mound. Now, the Buddha's handed-down instruction necessarily commands: 'Abandon your skeletons, cast them away into these wild grasses, and bring forth abundant wealth to build my stūpas and temples.' This leads foolish men into confusion and chaos, abandoning these canonical rituals; for their deceased parents' coffins, they have no intention of mounding earth or planting trees—(The censure says: 'Observing the era of the Sovereign of Heaven, no funeral or burial rituals were performed. These began with the subterranean graves of the Zhou; hence there were coffins bound with vines, plain wooden boxes, and the earthenware covers of the Yu dynasty's coffins—all originating in the middle antiquity. When it came to the time of King Wen of Zhou, seeing exposed skeletons in the wilds, he collected and buried them, and burial rituals were first practiced. Thus it is said: "Burial means concealing; one desires that others not see them." Therefore, when the Master was gravely ill, his disciples wished to give him a lavish burial; Confucius heard of it and said: "Would I deceive Heaven? One should select barren ground, with neither mound nor planted trees, only brambles and spindle trees." This meant condescending to conform to the latter age in practicing burial rituals; he simply could not avoid worldly customs.')—yet for the spirit corpses of barbarians, they exhaust the finest decorative carvings! Furthermore, 'the spirits do not accept the offerings of those not of their kin, and creatures do not sacrifice to those who are not their ancestors.' 'Not respecting one's parents while respecting other men'—it refers to this! Moreover, water burial and fire burial have different customs; burying corpses and exposing corpses originally vary by country. To abandon one's own customs and follow another's in order to seek blessings—how could one not realize that the lands are different, and each is naturally so? The world cannot know this. This is their sixth confusion.