廣弘明集 9.107

9.107

臣笑曰。此乃改法華佛智為道智耳。自餘並同諸文非一。昔有問道士顧歡歡答。靈寶妙經天文大字出於自然。本非法華。乃是羅什妄與僧肇。改我道經為法華也。且靈寶偷於法華可誑東夏。法華之異靈寶。不殊西域。今譯人所出不爽經文。以此推之。故知偷改為實。且佛經博約詞義宏深。千卷百部無重文者。不同老經自無別計。倚傍佛經開張卷部。且五千之文全無及佛。佛之八藏亦不論道。自餘後作皆竊佛經。後自明之。不廣其類。是以古來賢達諷誦佛經。至今流傳代代不絕。道法必勝何不誦持。舉國統括誦道誰是。是故知非可為准的。

Your servant laughs, saying: This is merely altering the 'wisdom of the Buddha' from the Lotus Sutra into the 'wisdom of the Dao.' All the rest is similarly drawn from various texts in more than one instance. Formerly, someone questioned the Daoist Gu Huan, and Huan answered: 'The grand celestial characters of the Lingbao miao jing came forth from spontaneity; they were originally not the Lotus Sutra. It was Kumārajīva who rashly, together with Sengzhao, altered our Daoist scripture into the Lotus Sutra.' Now, that the Lingbao scripture plagiarized the Lotus Sutra could deceive people in the Eastern Xia, but that the Lotus Sutra differs from the Lingbao scripture is identical in the Western Regions; what modern translators produce does not diverge from the scripture texts. Inferring from this, we know that plagiarizing and altering it is the truth. Moreover, the Buddhist sutras are broad yet concise, their words and meanings vast and profound; among their thousand fascicles and hundred divisions there are no repeated texts. They are not like the Laojun scriptures, which possess no independent ideas of their own and rely entirely upon Buddhist sutras to expand their fascicles and divisions. Furthermore, in the five thousand words [of the Daodejing] there is nothing concerning the Buddha at all, nor do the eight treasuries of the Buddha discuss the Dao. All other later writings simply steal from Buddhist sutras. This will be made clear later; I will not expand on these categories now. For this reason, worthy and prominent figures from ancient times have chanted Buddhist sutras, transmitting them down to the present day without break across the generations. If the Daoist methods are truly superior, why do people not chant and uphold them? Looking across the entire realm, who is there that recites the Dao? Therefore, we know it cannot be taken as a standard.