[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) › [辯正論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110) › 8.73 # 辯正論 8.73 辯正論 8.73 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.8.73) 案古及今佛家立一切經目。具辯翻譯帝代并注疑偽別部。恐惑亂黎民故也。今道家先無翻譯。仍立記目。或依傍佛經。或別頭假造而不記年月。不詳世代裝潢帶軸與真經一種。詐言空中自出。或道谷裏飛來盛行於世疑誤下愚。近如大業末年。五通觀道士輔慧詳三年不言。改涅槃經為長安經。當時禁約不許出城門。家內見著黃衣執送留守。改經事發為尚書衛文昇所奏。於金光門外被戮。耳目同驗。事發者既爾。不發者有之。請令大德名僧儒生道士。對宰輔朝俊詳檢內外經史。刊定是非。立目為記。以息邪偽。令慕道之侶得依宗楷學。永絕迷妄。 > I observe that from ancient times to the present, the Buddhist school has established comprehensive catalogues of all scriptures, fully discerning the translators, the imperial eras, and annotating suspected, apocryphal, and separate works, for fear of confusing the common people. Now, the Daoist school previously had no translations, yet they establish records and catalogues. They either rely on Buddhist sūtras, or fabricate them separately without recording the year and month, and without knowing the generations; they mount them with rollers just like genuine scriptures, deceitfully claiming that they emerged spontaneously from the void or flew forth from valleys, circulating widely throughout the world and misleading the ignorant masses. In recent times, in the final years of the Daye era, the Daoist master Fu Huixiang of Wutong Abbey did not speak for three years, and altered the Nirvāṇa Sūtra into the Chang'an jing. At that time, restrictions were imposed forbidding people from leaving the city gates. When his family saw him wearing yellow robes, they seized him and handed him over to the garrison command. When the matter of altering the scripture was discovered, he was impeached by the Minister Wei Wensheng and executed outside the Jinguang Gate; this was witnessed by ears and eyes alike. Since those whose deeds are discovered are like this, there must also be those who are not discovered. I request that eminent and renowned monks, Confucian scholars, and Daoist masters be ordered, before the chief ministers and court luminaries, to thoroughly examine the internal and external scriptures and histories, definitively determine right from wrong, and establish a catalogue as a record to put an end to heterodoxy and fraud, so that those who admire the Dao may rely on authentic models for their study and forever sever confusion and delusion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.8.72) - [Next: 8.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.8.74) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110~en-mt.8.73) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [唐護法沙門法琳別傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051.3.4) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.8.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.8.73) · Pramāṇa