廣弘明集 15.44

15.44

On the first day of the fifth month in the renzi year, the eighth year of the Yixi reign of the Jin, we jointly erected this terrace to imitate the image of the original mountain, thereby lodging our sincerity. Although its completion depended on craftsmen, no artificial effort was added to it. When the year was at the stellar marker Chifenruo, upright in the realm of Taiyin, on the third day of the ninth month, having thoroughly examined separate records, we inscribed it on stone. From its initial beginning, each person multiplied their sincerity a hundredfold; monks and laity rejoiced in it, feeling the remaining traces so as to delight their hearts. Thereupon, with their emotions responding to the origin, their affairs forgot all toil. At that time, the guests who wielded the brush all joined in chanting together, all thinking to preserve the far-reaching plan and entrust the images to rare accounts, hoping to serve as a repeated standard for future worthies. Therefore, the people of the time are fully listed at the gathering of the shadow assembly and the Great Penetration. While we genuinely sorrow over what our present life expects, yet lingering with far-reaching sighs, we have already transcended that divine realm.