[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) › 9.50 # 廣弘明集 9.50 廣弘明集 9.50 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.50) 臣笑曰。南極真人問事品稱。靈寶真文三十六卷。在玉京山玄臺玉室。真文大字滿中。天地淪沒萬成萬壞。真文獨明。此之真文。即三洞文也。三皇即三洞之尊神。必不在三洞之後。爾時未有鳥獸。何得云三皇已前鳥跡之始文也。若以伏羲為三皇者。案淮南子云。皇帝使倉頡覩鳥跡造文字。此則止在皇帝之時。何得云三皇已前鳥文之始乎。 > Your servant laughs and says: The 'Wenshi pin' of the Perfected of the Southern Pole states that the thirty-six rolls of the True Script of Lingbao reside in the jade chamber of the mysterious terrace on Mount Yujing. The large characters of the True Script fill it within. Heaven and Earth drown and perish, forming and failing myriad times, yet the True Script alone remains luminous. This True Script is none other than the text of the Three Caverns. Since the Three Sovereigns are the revered spirits of the Three Caverns, they certainly cannot be later than the Three Caverns. At that time, birds and beasts did not yet exist; how then can it be called the initial writing of bird tracks prior to the Three Sovereigns? If Fuxi is taken as one of the Three Sovereigns, then according to the Huainanzi, the Yellow Emperor ordered Cangjie to observe bird tracks and create characters. This was only in the time of the Yellow Emperor; how could it be the beginning of bird writing prior to the Three Sovereigns? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.49) - [Next: 9.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.51) - [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.9.50) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.50) · Pramāṇa