辯正論 3.82

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隋煬帝（諱廣）嗣膺下武丕承大業。至德光被於億兆。神化覃洽於黎元。占風候雨之鄉。梯山請朔。蟠木流沙之地。汎海輸賝。外洞九流內窮三藏。究真如之妙理。殫造化之幽源。體物超前緣情冠古。每以鼎湖之駕邈矣寧追。長陵之魂悠然茲永。乃聿興淨業標樹福田。大業元年為文皇帝造西禪定寺。並式規大壯備准宏模。起如意之臺。列神通之室。仁祠切漢。靈剎干霄。寶樹八行和鈴四角。巃嵸三層之格。懸自響之鍾。布護千葉之蓮。捧飛來之座。危吞琅瑘之殿。陵跨魯恭之宮。盡世珍奇具諸文物。又於高陽造隆聖寺。碑文祕書郎虞世南撰。爾乃儼香閣以遠臨。曖花臺之相踞。金波夜上徘徊璧璫之側。玉繩曉映的歷珠網之間。澹虛白於房帷。生風雲於軒牖。靈龕禪室像設化城。踊塔寶臺極圖神變。又於道場設無遮大會。度清信士女。百二十人。奉為文皇帝敬造金銅釋迦坐像一軀。通光趺七尺二寸。未及莊嚴。而頂凝紺翠體耀紫金。放大光明照映堂宇。既感通於嘉瑞。勅諸州郡各圖寫焉。又於并州造弘善寺。傍龍山作彌陀坐像。高一百三十尺。揚州造慧日道場。京師造清禪寺日嚴寺香臺寺。又捨九宮為九寺。於泰陵莊陵二所並各造寺。平陳之後於揚州莊補故經。并寫新本。合六百一十二藏。二萬九千一百七十三部。九十萬三千五百八十卷。修治故像一十萬一千軀。鑄刻新像三千八百五十軀。所度僧尼一萬六千二百人。

Emperor Yang of the Sui (taboo name Guang) succeeded to the martial achievements [of his father] and grandly inherited the great enterprise. His ultimate virtue shed light upon millions of people, and his spiritual transformation permeated the populace. From regions that divine the wind and watch the rain, they scaled mountains to request the calendar; from lands of intertwined trees and shifting sands, they sailed the seas to present treasures. Externally he mastered the nine philosophical schools, and internally he exhausted the Tripiṭaka, penetrating the wondrous principle of suchness (tathatā) and exhausting the profound source of creation. Embodying things, he surpassed predecessors, and expressing sentiments, he topped antiquity. Constantly lamenting that the chariot of Lake Ding was distant and impossible to pursue, and that the soul at Changling was remote and eternal, he thereupon vigorously initiated pure karma and erected fields of merit. In the first year of Daye, he built West Chanding Temple on behalf of Emperor Wen, entirely modeling it on the magnificent grandeur and fully adhering to the grand pattern. He raised the Terrace of Wish-Fulfillment and laid out the Chambers of Spiritual Powers. The halls of benevolence reached the Milky Way, and the sacred pillars towered into the sky. Jeweled trees stood in eight rows, and harmonious bells rang at the four corners. In towering three-storied galleries hung self-sounding bells; spreading thousand-petaled lotuses bore up flight-arrived seats. Its loftiness surpassed the palace of Langya; its majesty outdid the court of Lu Gong. It exhausted all worldly rarities and possessed every cultural artifact. Furthermore, he built Longsheng Temple in Gaoyang, whose stele text was composed by Yu Shinan, Gentleman of the Palace Library. There, the fragrant pavilions stood solemnly overlooking from afar, and the flower terraces sat facing each other in twilight. The golden moon rose at night, lingering beside the jade-adorned tiles; the Jade Cord constellation shone at dawn, glittering among the pearl nettings. Serene emptiness brightened the curtains of the rooms, and winds and clouds arose at the porches and windows. With sacred niches, dhyāna chambers, and image-settings of the Conjured City, and with gushing pagodas and jeweled terraces, it carried the representation of divine transformations to the utmost. Furthermore, he held an unobstructed great assembly at the bodhimanda and ordained one hundred and twenty laymen and laywomen. On behalf of Emperor Wen, he respectfully made one seated gilded-bronze image of Śākya, measuring seven feet two inches including the halo and pedestal. Before it was gilded and adorned, its uṣṇīṣa congealed into dark turquoise and its body shone with purple gold, emitting a great radiance that illuminated the halls and chambers. Since this moved and resonated with auspicious portents, he ordered the prefectures and commanderies to make copies of it. He also built Hongshan Temple in Bingzhou, and along Mount Long carved a seated image of Amitābha one hundred and thirty feet high. In Yangzhou he built Huidi Bodhimanda, and in the capital he built Qingchan Temple, Riyan Temple, and Xiangtai Temple. Furthermore, he converted nine palaces into nine temples, and at both Tailings and Zhuangling he built a temple at each. After pacifying Chen, in Yangzhou he restored and mended old sūtras and copied new copies, totaling 612 collections of the Tripiṭaka, 29,173 works, and 903,580 fascicles. He restored 101,000 old images and cast or carved 3,850 new images. The monks and nuns he ordained numbered 16,200.