廣弘明集 15.44

15.44

晉義熙八年歲在壬子五月一日。共立此臺擬像本山。因即以寄誠。雖成由人匠而功無所加。至於歲次星紀。赤奮若貞于太陰之墟。九月三日乃詳撿別記。銘之於石。爰自經始人百其誠。道俗欣之感遺跡以悅心。於是情以本應事忘其勞。于時揮翰之賓。僉焉同詠。咸思存遠猷。託相異聞。庶來賢之重軌。故備時人於影集大通之會。誠悲現所期。至於佇襟遐慨固已超夫神境矣。

On the first day of the fifth month in the renzi year, the eighth year of the Yixi reign of the Jin, we jointly erected this terrace to imitate the image of the original mountain, thereby lodging our sincerity. Although its completion depended on craftsmen, no artificial effort was added to it. When the year was at the stellar marker Chifenruo, upright in the realm of Taiyin, on the third day of the ninth month, having thoroughly examined separate records, we inscribed it on stone. From its initial beginning, each person multiplied their sincerity a hundredfold; monks and laity rejoiced in it, feeling the remaining traces so as to delight their hearts. Thereupon, with their emotions responding to the origin, their affairs forgot all toil. At that time, the guests who wielded the brush all joined in chanting together, all thinking to preserve the far-reaching plan and entrust the images to rare accounts, hoping to serve as a repeated standard for future worthies. Therefore, the people of the time are fully listed at the gathering of the shadow assembly and the Great Penetration. While we genuinely sorrow over what our present life expects, yet lingering with far-reaching sighs, we have already transcended that divine realm.