廣弘明集 13.102

13.102

The external treatise says: The Daoist and Buddhist scriptures each set forth their own explanations: either saying that they appear kalpa after kalpa, competing in having none before them, or saying that they are born generation after generation, disputing who has endured the longest. Such distant matters are difficult to verify. Now, relying on historical records to establish their eras: speaking in terms of human relations, the elder is revered and the younger is low; speaking in terms of the village, there is also the elder brother and the younger brother. This is the sixth distinction in earlier and later.