廣弘明集 27.304

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諸法本空寂滅無說。以因緣故現有文字。當知文字經典本在破病滅惑為先。惑既八萬四千。故使教門亦有八萬四千法藏。至於病銷惑遣。藥亦隨亡。如栰喻者。可以情悉。然群生沈網隨言封滯。由此見故教藥常陳。所以金簡盈於寶殿。玉軸煥於神宮。辯析空有於假實。表發權智於無方。故如來一代四十九年。隨緣示教種種說法。及於涅槃但有聲教計。隨言說必致淪亡。然以義理談玄。正宗無昧。言雖得喪全旨難乖。故立法依用永刊定。天魔外道莫敢侵陵。自慧日已沈法雲遐布。非夫簡冊無由獻功。尊大迦葉法門英俊。擊鍾聲告。召集無學千僧。一夏撰結遺言。十二義求三藏文攝。多羅葉典其量莫思。蘊積西夏將及千載。時運漸染東翻漢朝。㳂彼至今年垂六百。雜錄正經七千餘卷。詞義明敏談味無遺。近則安國利人。遠則超凡證聖。備如卷部。智者尋之。至心奉為。

All phenomena are fundamentally empty, quiescent and beyond words. Due to causes and conditions, they appear in written words. One should know that written words and scriptures are fundamentally aimed first at destroying disease and eradicating confusion. Since confusions number eighty-four thousand, the teaching gates likewise contain eighty-four thousand Dharma treasuries. When the disease is dispelled and confusion removed, the medicine also vanishes accordingly; like the parable of the raft, this can be understood in spirit. However, the multitude of beings sink in the net of delusion and remain fixated upon words; because of this clinging view, the medicine of teaching is perpetually presented. Thus, golden slips fill the precious halls, and jade scrolls shine in the spiritual palaces, analyzing emptiness and existence between provisional and real, and displaying provisional and ultimate wisdom without fixed limits. Therefore, throughout the Tathāgata's forty-nine years in this single generation, he manifested teachings according to conditions and preached the Dharma in diverse ways. Even in his nirvāṇa, there were only auditory teachings; if one clings strictly to words, one will inevitably fall into ruin. Yet when discussing the profound through principles, the orthodox doctrine is without obscurity. Although words may succeed or fail, the comprehensive purport is hard to contradict. Therefore, the reliance on the Dharma was established as an eternal standard, such that deva-māras and non-Buddhists dare not encroach upon it. Since the sun of wisdom set and the clouds of Dharma spread afar, if not for bamboo slips and scrolls, there would be no means to render service. The venerable and great Kāśyapa, the preeminent among the followers of the Dharma gate, struck the bell to sound the summons, assembling a thousand non-learning arhat monks. During a single summer retreat, they compiled the bequeathed words, seeking the twelve aspects of the teachings to encompass them in the texts of the Tripiṭaka. The scriptures of palm leaves are beyond measure in quantity; accumulated in the Western Regions for nearly a thousand years, as fortunes shifted, they were gradually translated eastward into the Chinese court. From that time until today, nearly six hundred years have passed. The cataloged true scriptures exceed seven thousand rolls; their words and meanings are luminous and keen, their discussion and flavor exhaustive. In the near term, they bring peace to the state and benefit people; in the long term, they transcend the ordinary and realize the sagely, fully detailed in these rolls and volumes. Let the wise seek them out! With the utmost sincerity, on behalf of: