廣弘明集 22.60

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沙門玄奘言。竊聞六爻探賾。局於生滅之場。百物正名。未涉真如之境。猶且遠徵羲冊。覩奧不測其神。遐想軒圖。歷選並歸其美。伏惟皇帝陛下。玉臺降質金輪御天。廓先王之九州。掩百千之日月。斥列代之區域。納恒沙之法界。遂使給園精舍並入隄封。貝葉靈文咸歸冊府。玄奘往因振錫聊謁崛山。經途萬里怙天威如咫尺。匪乘千葉詣雙林如食頃。搜揚三藏。盡龍宮之所儲。研究一乘。窮鷲嶺之遺旨。並以載乎白馬來獻紫宸。尋蒙下詔賜使翻譯。玄奘識乖龍樹。謬忝傳燈之榮。才異馬鳴。深愧瀉瓶之敏。所譯經論。紕舛尤多。遂荷天恩留神。構序文超象繫之表。若聚日之放千光。理括眾妙之門。同法雲之濡百草。一音演說億劫罕逢。無以微生親承梵響。踊躍歡喜如聞受記。無任忻荷之極。謹奉表詣闕。陳謝以聞。謹言。

The monk Xuanzang states: I have heard that exploring the depths of the six lines of the hexagram is confined to the arena of arising and ceasing, and rectifying the names of the hundred things has not yet touched the realm of tathatā. Yet even looking back to the records of Fuxi, when beholding their depths one cannot fathom their spirit; looking afar to the diagrams of the Yellow Emperor, when reviewing them all, beauty returns to them. Humbly I consider that Your Imperial Majesty descended in substance from the Jade Terrace and governs the heavens with the Golden Wheel, broadening the nine provinces of previous kings and eclipsing hundreds of thousands of suns and moons. You have expanded the boundaries of past dynasties, and taken in dharma-realms numerous as the sands of the Ganges, causing the Anāthapiṇḍada monastery to enter your border-dykes, and sacred birch-bark texts to return to your imperial archives. In the past, shaking my staff, I went for a time to pay homage to Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa; across ten thousand leagues of road, I relied on your heavenly majesty as though it were right beside me. Without riding the thousand petals, I reached the Twin Śāla Groves as quickly as a meal. In searching out and raising up the Tripiṭaka, I exhausted the stores of the dragon palaces; in investigating the One Vehicle, I plumbed the bequeathed intent of Vulture Peak. Loading them all onto white horses, I came to offer them to the Purple Court. Soon after, I received an imperial edict granting permission to translate them. My understanding falls short of Nāgārjuna, and I falsely disgrace the honor of transmitting the lamp; my talent differs from Aśvaghoṣa, and I am deeply ashamed before the agility of pouring from a vase. The sūtras and treatises I have translated contain all too many blunders. Yet I have been blessed with heavenly grace giving mindful attention: the composition of your preface transcends the symbols and commentaries of the Book of Changes, like the gathered sun radiating a thousand rays of light; its principles encompass the gate of all subtleties, like the cloud of Dharma moistening the hundred grasses. Preached in a single voice, it is rarely encountered in a hundred million kalpas; for my humble life to personally hear this Brahma sound makes me leap with joy as though hearing a prophecy of enlightenment. Incapable of bearing the utmost joy and gratitude, I respectfully present this memorial to the palace to express my thanks. Respectfully spoken.