[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [廣弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103) › 9.10 # 廣弘明集 9.10 廣弘明集 9.10 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.10) 臣鸞笑曰。漢書云。長安本名咸陽。漢祖定天下將都雒邑。因婁敬之諫乃歎曰。朕當長安於此。因爾名之。周幽未有何得老子。預知長安與尹喜期乎。又案三天正法混沌經云。混沌之始。清氣為天濁氣為地。便有七曜萬像之形其來久矣。豈有化胡之後老子方變為日月山川之類乎。若爾者是則幽王之前。天地未生萬物。云何道經有三皇五帝三王乎。然則天地起自幽王矣。又造天地記云。崑崙山高四千八百里。上有玉京山大羅山。各高四千八百里。三山合則高一萬四千四百里。又廣說品云。天地相去萬萬五千里。計紫微宮在五億重天之上。是則高於崑崙山數百萬里。而老君以心為華蓋。肝為青帝宮。脾為紫微宮。頭為崑崙山。不知老君何罪倒竪於地。頭在下肝在上。以顛倒故見亦倒乎。以長安為度關之年。幽王為開闢之歲。將以化物。詎可承乎。 > Your servant Luan laughs, saying: The Book of Han states that Chang'an was originally named Xianyang. When the Han Founder pacified the realm and was about to make Luoyi his capital, he was admonished by Lou Jing and sighed, saying: 'I shall have long peace (changan) here.' He therefore named it thus. In the time of King You of Zhou, \[this name\] did not yet exist; how could Laozi have known in advance of Chang'an and set an appointment with Yin Xi \[there\]? Furthermore, on examining the Santian zhengfa hundun jing, it says: 'At the beginning of Chaos, the clear qi became Heaven and the turbid qi became Earth, and immediately the forms of the seven luminaries and the myriad phenomena came into being.' Their origin was long ago! How could it be that only after converting the barbarians did Laozi first transform into the sun, moon, mountains, and rivers? If that were so, then before King You, Heaven and Earth had not yet generated the myriad things. Why then do the Daoist scriptures have the Three Sovereigns, the Five Emperors, and the Three Kings? It would mean that Heaven and Earth began with King You! Furthermore, the Zao tiandi ji says: 'Mount Kunlun is 4,800 li high; above it are Mount Yujing and Mount Daluo, each 4,800 li high; combined, the three mountains are 14,400 li high.' Moreover, the Guanshuo pin says: 'Heaven and Earth are separated by 105,000 li, and calculating that the Ziwei Palace is above five hundred million levels of heaven, it is then several million li higher than Mount Kunlun.' Yet Lord Lao took his heart as the Flowery Canopy, his liver as the Palace of the Blue Emperor, his spleen as the Ziwei Palace, and his head as Mount Kunlun. I know not what offense Lord Lao committed to be planted upside-down on the ground, with his head below and his liver above! Being inverted, are his views inverted as well? Taking Chang'an as the year of crossing the pass, and King You as the time of cosmogony—could anyone possibly accept using this to convert beings? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.9) - [Next: 9.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.11) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103~en-mt.9.10) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.10) · Pramāṇa