辯正論 6.125

6.125

外論曰。天皇九紀之前。書契未作。太昊六爻之後。文字乃興。自爾已來漸弘載籍。前賢往聖皆著典墳。揖讓干戈備陳篆冊。所以左史記事右史記辭。直筆直言無矯無妄。魏書外國傳皇甫謐高士傳。並曰。桑門浮圖經。老子所作。

The outer treatise says: Before the nine eras of the Heavenly Sovereign, written records had not yet been made; after the six lines of Taihao, writing first arose. From then on, documents and records gradually expanded; former worthies and past sages all authored classical canons. Deferrals of the throne and armed conflicts were fully laid out in seal-script registers. Thus the scribe of the left recorded events and the scribe of the right recorded speeches; with straight brushes and forthright words, there was nothing falsified or fabricated. Both the 'Treatise on Foreign Countries' in the *Book of Wei* and Huangfu Mi's *Biographies of High-Minded Scholars* state: 'The sūtra of the śramaṇa Buddha was composed by Laozi.'