出三藏記集 11.30

11.30

夫窮像於玄原之無始。萬行始於戒信之玄兆。是故天竺鳩摩羅什法師心首持誦。什言。此戒出梵網經中。而什法師少翫大方。齊異學於迦夷。淳風東扇。故弘始三年秦王道契百王之業。奉心大法。於逍遙觀中。三千學士與什參定大小乘經五十餘部。唯菩薩十戒四十八輕。最後誦出。時融影三百人等一時受行修菩薩道。豈唯當時之益。乃有累劫之津也。故慧融書三千部流通於後代。持誦相授屬諸後學。好道之君子。願來劫不絕。共見千佛龍華同坐。

Form is traced to the beginningless origin of the profound; the myriad practices begin with the profound omen of faith in the precepts. For this reason, Master Kumārajīva from India held it in his heart and recited it. Kumārajīva said: 'These precepts come from the Fanwang jing (Brahmajāla-sūtra).' Master Kumārajīva in his youth took delight in the great expanse, matching the heterodox doctrines in Kapilavastu; his pure wind blew eastwards. Therefore, in the third year of Hongshi, the Qin king, whose Dao matched the accomplishments of a hundred kings, set his mind on the Great Dharma. In the Xiaoyao Garden, three thousand scholars along with Kumārajīva examined and settled more than fifty works of Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna scriptures; only the Bodhisattva's ten major precepts and forty-eight minor infractions were recited out last. At that time, three hundred persons, including Daorong and Sengying, received and practiced them together, cultivating the Bodhisattva Path. How could this benefit only that era? It was indeed a ford across continuous kalpas. Therefore Huirong copied three thousand fascicles to circulate them to later generations, transmitting them from recitation to recitation to entrust them to future students. Gentlemen who delight in the Way: may this not cease in coming kalpas, so that together we may see the thousand Buddhas and sit together beneath the dragon-flower tree!