續一切經音義 10.18

10.18

Exhausting the jade lectures (殫玉講: the first character is [pronounced with the fanqie] dang + an; Kong's commentary to the Shangshu says that dan means "to exhaust"; the Shuowen gives the same gloss, formed from evil/bare-bone [歺] with dan as phonetic; examining the original biography, it says: "fathoming the golden words and exhausting the jade tablets [玉牒]"; some write it with the character die [牒, tablet]; in the Poxie lun, Venerable Lin's memorial agrees with this and also writes the character die [牒], which means white birch-bark and Sanskrit pothi sūtras and treatises; now this separate biography writes "jade lectures" [玉講], whose meaning is not yet clear).