三教平心論 1.18

1.18

Others merely see that Daoism has the Scripture of Converting the Barbarians (Huahu jing), claiming that Śākya and Mañjuśrī were transformed by Laozi and Yin Xi; and that Buddhism has the Treatise Refuting Heterodoxy (Poxie lun), claiming that the Buddha dispatched three disciples to convert Cīnasthāna, where Confucius was Bodhisattva Māṇava, Yan Hui was Bodhisattva Viśuddhaprabha, and Laozi was Mahākāśyapa. If it were truly thus, how could the superiority and inferiority of the Three Teachings be decided in an instant's discussion? Little do they realize that the authors of both books each wished to exalt themselves and belittle the other, thereby constructing fabrications that departed from reality.