廣弘明集 2.6

2.6

大人有作司牧生民。結繩以往書契所紀。羲軒已還至於三代。墳典之迹為秦所焚。漢採遺籍復若山丘。固使六家七略班馬區異。釋氏之學聞於前漢武帝。元狩中霍去病獲昆邪王及金人率長丈餘。帝以為大神。列於甘泉宮。燒香禮拜。此則佛道流通之漸也。及開西域。遣張騫使大夏。還云。身毒天竺國有浮圖之教。哀帝元壽中景憲受大月氏王口授浮圖經。

When great men arise, they shepherd the living people. From the era of knotting cords onwards, events were recorded in script. From Fu Xi and Xuan Yuan down to the Three Dynasties, the traces of the ancient records were burned by Qin. The Han gathered surviving books, which once again piled up like mountains and hills, certainly causing the Six Schools and Seven Summaries, Ban [Gu] and Ma [Sima Qian], to differ in their categories. The teachings of the Śākya were first heard of during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Former Han. During the Yuanshou era, Huo Qubing captured the Prince of Kunxie and a golden statue over a zhang tall. The Emperor considered it a great deity, placed it in the Ganquan Palace, and burned incense and prostrated before it. This was the gradual beginning of the circulation of the Buddha's way. When the Western Regions were opened, Zhang Qian was dispatched as an envoy to Daxia; upon his return, he reported that in the states of Shengtu and Tianzhu there were the teachings of the Futu. In the Yuanshou era of Emperor Ai, Jing Xian received oral transmission of the Futu Scripture from the King of the Da Yuezhi.