法苑珠林 100.36

100.36

自仙苑告成金河靜濟。敷字群品汲引塵曚。隨機候而設謀猷。逐性欲而陳聲教。網羅一化統括大千。受其道者難訾。傳其宗者易曉。遂能流被東夏。時經六百。翻譯方言。卷數五千。英俊道俗。依傍聖宗。所出文記三千餘卷。莊嚴佛法顯揚聖教。文華旨奧殊妙可觀。歷代隱顯部袟散落。雖有大數。不足者多。尋訪長安減向千卷。唯聞廬山東林之寺。即是晉時慧遠法師所造伽藍。綱維住持一切諸經及以雜集。各造別藏安置並足。知事守固禁掌極牢。更相替代傳授領數。慮後法滅知教全焉。今隨所見聞者。具列如左（後見有者冀補茲處）。

Since the accomplishment was proclaimed in the Immortal's Park and the tranquil crossing was made by the Golden River, letters have been unfolded to guide the myriad beings and draw out the clouded and benighted. He established plans in accord with faculties and timings, and displayed verbal teachings following dispositions and desires. Encompassing a whole lifetime's teaching and mastering the chiliocosm, those who received his Way were hard to measure, while those who transmitted his lineage were easily enlightened. Thus it was able to spread over the Eastern Xia, spanning six hundred years, translating the regional languages into five thousand fascicles. Talented monastics and laypeople, relying on the holy lineage, produced more than three thousand fascicles of writings and records, adorning the Buddhadharma and glorifying the holy teachings, with floral diction and profound tenets wonderfully worthy of contemplation. As eras flourished and declined, cases and volumes became scattered and lost; though a large number exists, those that are lacking are many. Searching through Chang'an, they fell short by nearly a thousand fascicles. I have only heard that the Donglin Temple on Mount Lu—which is the saṃghārāma founded by Dharma Master Huiyuan during the Jin—managed and maintained all the scriptures as well as the miscellaneous collections, establishing separate repositories for each to store them completely. The administrators guard them firmly and secure them with strict vigilance, handing over and accounting for the numbers as they succeed one another, concerned lest the Dharma disappear in later times and ensuring the teachings remain whole. Now, according to what I have seen and heard, I list them fully as follows (in the hope that what is found later may supplement this section):