釋氏要覽 1.123

1.123

華題也。釋名曰寺。嗣也。謂治事者。相嗣續於其內也。故天子有九寺焉。後漢明帝永平十年丁卯佛法初至。有印度二僧摩騰法蘭以白馬馱經像。屆洛陽。勅於鴻臚寺。安置（鴻臚即司賓寺也。胡廣釋云。鴻聲也。臚傳也。所以傳聲贊道九賓也。秦有典客。漢乃因之。至唐改為同文寺）。至十一年戊辰。勅於雍門外別建寺。以白馬為名。即漢土佛寺始也。吳孫權立建初寺。為始也。

This is the Chinese title. The Shiming says: Si (court/monastery) means si (succession), referring to officials succeeding one another therein. Thus the Son of Heaven has the Nine Courts (jiusi). In the tenth year of the Yongping era of Emperor Ming of the Later Han, a dingmao year, the Buddha's Dharma first arrived: there were two Indian monks, Dharmaratna and Kāśyapa Mātaṅga, who loaded sūtras and images onto a white horse and reached Luoyang. An imperial decree placed them in the Honglu Court (the Honglu was the Court of Guests. Hu Guang explained: 'Hong means great sound; lu means to transmit; it is that by which voices are transmitted to proclaim guidance to the nine kinds of guests.' The Qin had the Director of Guests, which the Han continued; in the Tang it was changed to the Tongwen Court). In the eleventh year, a wuchen year, an imperial decree ordered a separate monastery built outside the Yong Gate, named White Horse [Monastery]; this was the beginning of Buddhist monasteries in the Han land. In Wu, Sun Quan established the Jianchu Monastery as the beginning.