法苑珠林 12.96

12.96

又漢雒陽白馬寺有竺法蘭。是中天竺人。自言誦經論數萬章。為天竺學者之師。時蔡愔既至彼國。蘭與摩騰共契游化。遂相隨而來。會彼學徒留礙。蘭乃間行而至。既達雒陽與騰同止。少時便善漢言。愔於西域獲經。即為翻譯。所謂十地斷結佛本行四十二章經等五部。移都寇亂四部失本。不傳江左。唯四十二章經今見在。可二千餘言。漢地見存於此。漢地諸經之始也。蘭後卒於雒陽。春秋六十餘矣。

Furthermore, at the Baima Temple in Luoyang under the Han was Zhu Falan. He was a man of Central India. He himself claimed to have chanted and mastered several tens of thousands of verses of sūtras and treatises, and he served as a master to Indian scholars. At the time Cai Yin had arrived in that country, [Zhu Fa]lan made a pact with [She] Moteng to travel and convert, and so he accompanied him [towards China]. It happened that his disciples there detained and obstructed him, so [Zhu Fa]lan traveled by covert paths to arrive. Having reached Luoyang, he resided together with Moteng. In a short time, he became skilled in the Han language. The sūtras that Cai Yin had obtained in the Western Regions, he thereupon translated. These were the five texts known as the Shidi duanjie, the Fo benxing, the Sishier zhang jing, and others. Due to the movement of the capital and bandit turmoil, the original texts of four of them were lost and were not transmitted to the region south of the Yangzi. Only the Sishier zhang jing is extant today, amounting to some two thousand-odd words. That it is preserved here in the Han land makes it the beginning of all scriptures in the Han land. [Zhu Fa]lan later died in Luoyang, his springs and autumns numbering sixty-odd.