翻譯名義集 1.4

1.4

However, since the Buddha Dharma entered China, scriptures and treatises have multiplied daily. From Dharma Master Dao'an of the Jin to Zhisheng of the Tang, who compiled catalogues and illustrated scriptures, there were over ten authorities. Even today, the scriptures of the Tripiṭaka take Master Sheng’s Kaiyuan Shijiao Lu as the standard. Later generations have merely appended the Zongjian Lu and Fayuan Zhulin outside of the Tripiṭaka. Texts like the four-fascicle Suvarṇaprabhāsa-sūtra, the Mahāyāna Treatise, and our land's Zhengdao Ge still mostly remain excluded from the canon. Our court once appointed prime ministers as Commissioners of Scripture Translation and Style Embellishment, thus disseminating the Buddha Dharma to the utmost. Could there be no one to succeed Sheng? With translations originating long ago and transmission bringing scattering and loss, the genuine and the counterfeit mingle without any criterion to rely upon. How deeply to be lamented! Although Yun is already aged, he must still exert himself!