[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) › [大宋僧史略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126) › 1.23 # 大宋僧史略 1.23 大宋僧史略 1.23 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.23) 五運圖云。周世聖教靈迹。及阿育王造塔置于此土。合有傳記。良以秦始皇焚書。此亦隨爇。故今無處追尋。案始皇時。有沙門釋利房等十八賢者。齎經來化。始皇弗信。遂禁錮之。夜有神人。破獄出之。又漢成帝時。劉向挍書於天祿閣。往往見有佛經。及著列仙傳。得一百三十六人。七十四人已見佛經。以此詳究。知周秦之代已有佛教沙門。止未大興耳。至後漢第二主明帝永平七年。因夢金人。乃令秦景蔡愔王遵往天竺迎佛教。於月氏遇迦葉摩騰竺法蘭二沙門。入東夏。今以為始也。于時佛法雖到中原。未流江表。信受未廣。傳行未周。洎孫氏鼎分封疆阻隔。有康僧會者。本康居國人。赤鳥年中始化於南土也。 > The Wuyun tu says: 'There must have been chronicles of the sacred teachings and miraculous traces of the Zhou era, as well as King Aśoka building stūpas in this land; yet because the First Emperor of Qin burned the books, these were consumed in the flames as well, so there is now nowhere to trace them.' According to records, in the time of the First Emperor, eighteen sages including the śramaṇa Śrībandhu came with sūtras to convert the people; the First Emperor did not believe them and imprisoned them. At night a divine being broke open the prison and released them. Furthermore, in the time of Emperor Cheng of the Han, when Liu Xiang collated books in the Tianlu Pavilion, he frequently came across Buddhist scriptures; and when compiling the Liexian zhuan, he included one hundred and thirty-six persons, of whom seventy-four had already seen Buddhist sūtras. Investigating through these, we know that in the Zhou and Qin eras there were already the Buddha's teachings and śramaṇas, though they had not yet flourished greatly. When it came to Yongping 7 under Emperor Ming, the second sovereign of the Later Han, because he dreamed of a golden man, he dispatched Qin Jing, Cai Yin, and Wang Zun to India to welcome the Buddha's teachings; in the Yuezhi country they met the two śramaṇas Kāśyapa Mātaṅga and Dharmaratna and entered the Eastern Xia, which is now taken as the beginning. At that time, although the Buddha-Dharma reached the Central Plains, it had not yet spread south of the Yangtze River; faith and acceptance were not widespread, and transmission and practice were not complete. When the Sun clan divided the realm and borders were closed, there was Kang Senghui, originally a man of the Kangju country, who first began converting the southern lands during the Chiwu era. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.22) - [Next: 1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.24) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126~en-mt.1.23) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.23) · Pramāṇa