一切經音義 25.7

25.7

Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, Chapter 1: Lifespan (Huilin remarks: Although the text composed by Master Yun is verbose and slightly resembles an exegetical commentary, we now retain its thoroughness since it does not lose the sūtra's intent and is superior to the glosses of other masters. Hereafter, the thirty-six fascicles of the Southern Version of the Nirvāṇa-sūtra will share these glosses. For the sounds and meanings, we follow what was composed by Master Yun; only for the dhāraṇīs and where discussions of Sanskrit letters are distant and inaccurate, Huilin has now retranslated and corrected them based on the Sanskrit texts, as the reader will perceive).