翻譯名義集 1.6

1.6

The Great Being of the Snow Mountains gave up his body in quest of half a verse; / The brahmacārin Dharma-Lover split his bones in veneration of four lines. / Having long sunk in the sea of suffering, we now encounter this boat of compassion. Maintaining resolve and exhausting sincerity to cull the scriptures and assemble the treatises, one should place [this work] before an image, burn incense, and prostrate; silence the worldly thoughts of defilement; roam the Dharma forest of prajñā; and upon finishing the volume and closing the scroll, gather the mind to sit quietly, illuminate the fundamental essence of primal brilliance, and return to the nature-source of eternal quiescence. Although the myriad phenomena are actively deployed, yet even the single nonexistence is also cut off.