出三藏記集 5.15

5.15

Guangzan zhezhong jie (Compromise Exposition on the Guangzan [prajñāpāramitā]), one fascicle.
Guangzan chaojie (Exposition on the Excerpts of the Guangzan), one fascicle.
As for the "Fangguang chapter" of the Prajñā[-pāramitā], it distinguishes the exhaustion of outflows without yet realizing the eighth stage (bhūmi). Its source and stream are vast and boundless, its meaning profound and recondite; it is not something whose ancestral temple can be seen in haste. Dao'an made the Zheyi zhun (Norms for Resolving Doubts), one fascicle; the Zheyi lüe (Summary for Resolving Doubts), two fascicles; and the Qijin jie (Exposition on the Genesis and Conclusion), one fascicle.
As for the Daoxing pin, it is an excerpt of the Prajñā[-pāramitā]. After the Buddha passed away, an eminent and discerning person of a foreign country compiled it. Its phrasing is unadorned and repetitious, its beginning and end obscure to one another. He composed the Jiyi zhu (Collected Annotations on Discrepancies), one fascicle.
As for the Greater and Lesser Twelve Gates (Shi'ermen), they are the deep storehouse of meditative contemplation. He composed commentaries for each:
He composed a commentary on the Greater: the Da shi'ermen [zhu], two fascicles; and the Xiao shi'ermen [zhu], one fascicle (extant today).
As for the Liaoben shengsi [jing], it is the mysterious marshland of the four truths and four faiths. He composed a commentary, one fascicle (extant today).
Miji jinggang jing (Guhyakādhipati-vajracakra-sūtra); Chixin fantian jing (Viśeṣacinti-brahma-paripṛcchā-sūtra).
The above two sūtras were produced by Master Zhu Fahu. They contain much hidden meaning. He composed the Zhenjie (Discerning Exposition), one fascicle.
As for the Xianjie bawan siqian duwuji [jing], it is a wondrous overview of the Great Vehicle. He composed an exposition, one fascicle.
As for the Ren benyusheng jing, it is the wondrous essential of the nine resting places and eight liberations. He composed a commentary and condensed exposition, one fascicle (extant today).
The Anban shouyi [jing] is the essential medicine for multiple reflections. He composed an exposition, one fascicle (extant today).
As for the Yin chi ru [jing], it is an incomplete sūtra produced by An Shigao; its deep stream is exquisite and delightful, a straight path to the ultimate Way. He composed a commentary, two fascicles (extant today).
As for the Da daodi [jing], it is an excerpt of the [Yogācāra]bhūmi, excerpted in a foreign country. He composed a commentary, one fascicle.
Where the practices of the various sūtras were perhaps not harmonized, Dao'an gathered them into the Shifaju yi (Meaning of the Ten Dharma-Phrases), one fascicle, bound together with miscellaneous expositions in the same scroll.
As for the Yizhi (Points of Meaning), it is the doctrines transmitted in this land by foreign śramaṇas. It states that the instructions of the various schools differ, and aims to broaden the hearing and seeing of future scholars. He augmented it into a commentary, one fascicle.
As for the ninety-eight fetters, they are the essential doctrine of the Abhidharma. He composed an exposition, one fascicle, bound together with the condensed general exposition in the same scroll.
He also composed the Sanshierxiang jie (Exposition on the Thirty-Two Marks), one fascicle.
The various heavens of the three realms were commingled and disordered; Dao'an made a catalogue, one fascicle (extant today).
The sūtras in this land were not produced at the same time: from the Guanghe era of Emperor Ling of the Han down to the present, the second year of the Kangning era of the Jin, is nearly two hundred years. Meeting fragments, they produced fragments; encountering completeness, they produced completeness. Not being the work of a single person, it is difficult to synthesize and organize them immediately. He made a catalogue for them, one fascicle (extant today).
Da shatai nan (Reply to Objections on the Purge), two fascicles.
Da fazhang nan (Reply to Objections on the Dharma General), one fascicle.
Xiyu zhi (Records of the Western Regions), one fascicle.
In total twenty-seven fascicles. The Catalogue of Heavens, the Catalogue of Sūtras, down to the Reply to Objections on the Purge and the Records of the Western Regions, although not commentaries on sūtras, are now appended to the end following Dao'an's old catalogue.

Sūtras Recited and Produced by the Nun Sengfa, Entered into the Catalogue of Suspect Works:
Baoding jing (Jewel Crown Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Yongyuan era, when she was nine years old.
Jingtu jing (Pure Land Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Yongyuan era, when she was nine years old.
Zhengding jing (Correct Crown Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Yongyuan era, when she was nine years old.
Fahua jing (Lotus Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Yongyuan era, when she was nine years old.
Yaocao jing (Medicinal Herbs Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the second year of the Yongyuan era, when she was ten years old.
Taizi jing (Crown Prince Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the second year of the Yongyuan era, when she was ten years old.
Jiayebo jing (Kāśyapa Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the second year of the Yongyuan era, when she was ten years old.
Poluonai jing (Vārāṇasī Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Zhongxing era, when she was twelve years old.
Youloupin jing (Uruvilvā Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Zhongxing era, when she was twelve years old.
Yiyi jing (Benefiting Intent Sūtra), two fascicles. Produced in the first year of the Tianjian era, when she was thirteen (transcribed under direction by Zhiyuan).
Borede jing (Attaining Wisdom Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Tianjian era, when she was thirteen (transcribed under direction by Zhiyuan).
Huayan yingluo jing (Avataṃsaka Garland Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Tianjian era, when she was thirteen (transcribed under direction by Zhiyuan).
Yutuowei jing (*Yodhāveya? Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the Huaguang Hall within the Imperial Palace in the fourth year of the Tianjian era, when she was sixteen.
Anahan jing (Anāgāmin Sūtra), two fascicles. Produced in the fourth year of the Tianjian era, when she was sixteen.
Miaoyin shizihou jing (Wondrous Sound Lion's Roar Sūtra), three fascicles. Produced in the fourth year of the Tianjian era, when she was sixteen (borrowed from the Zhang family).
Chucheng shizihou jing (Producing the Vehicle Lion's Roar Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the third year of the Tianjian era, when she was fifteen.
Shengman jing (Śrīmālā Sūtra), one fascicle. Produced in the first year of the Yongyuan era, when she was nine years old.
Youdan jing (Udumbara Sūtra), one fascicle.
Miaozhuangyan jing (Wondrous Adornment Sūtra), four fascicles.
Weimo jing (Vimalakīrti Sūtra), one fascicle (produced by the Jiang family).
Xu qishi jing (Preface on the Seven Generations Sūtra), one fascicle.
The above twenty-one sūtras, thirty-five fascicles in all.
These sūtras were produced as listed above by Nizi, the virgin daughter of Jiang Mi, an Erudite of the National Academy at the end of the Qi dynasty. At first, when Nizi was of an age when she shed her milk teeth, she would at times close her eyes and sit in quietude, reciting these sūtras. She would claim to have ascended to heaven, or say that they were bestowed by spirits. Her speech was fluent and unhindered, as though she had practiced it in a previous life. She had people transcribe them; after a short while she would stop, but after days or a month had passed she would resume as before. The monastics and laity in the capital all spread word of this wonder. Our present Emperor issued an edict to grant an audience and questioned her about the reasons. She answered according to the facts, appearing no different from an ordinary person. Yet she had deep faith in the correct Dharma and cultivated pure practice from an early age. Her parents wished to marry her off, but she took a vow and refused. Later she left the household, taking the name Sengfa, and resided at the Qingyuan Temple. As I, Sengyou, have gathered the canonical scriptures and investigated unusual reports, the matter reached my ears and eyes, and I went to request to examine them. Her family kept them secret and concealed, refusing to show them to me; I obtained only the Miaoyin shizihou jing in three fascicles to provide for this catalogue of suspect sūtras. This nun passed away in the third month of the […th] year of the Tianjian era. Some curious people obtained the texts and commentaries produced across time, fixing them at over twenty fascicles. Her maternal uncle Sun Zhi considered them genuine sūtras, circulating commentaries to promote and convert people, and collecting copies to transmit and transcribe them. Having already been written down on brush and tablet, they will inevitably be preserved in the world. Formerly, at the end of the Jian'an era of the Han, the wife of a certain Ding of Jiyin suddenly seemed to fall ill with a stroke, whereupon she could speak the Hu language. She then asked for paper and brush and wrote Hu script by herself. Furthermore, there was a Hu person from the Western Regions who saw her writing and said it was a scriptural prophecy. When investigating ancient times, such events are not entirely absent; however, their meaning did not come from the Golden Mouth, nor was there a master who translated them. Since acceptance and rejection both weigh on the mind, they are accordingly attached to the category of suspect texts.

Saposuoduojuan shu zhuangyan jing (Sarvajña-parivāra-alaṃkāra-sūtra), one fascicle (over twenty sheets of paper).
The above single work. In the ninth year of the Tianjian era of the Liang, Miaoguang, an ascetic itinerant monk of Yingzhou who had seven monastic years since ordination, fraudulently feigned extraordinary marks. The nuns and elderly women all proclaimed him to have attained the holy path. The Rectifier of Monks (saṃghanāyaka) of that province deliberated and intended to expel him; he thereupon slipped down to the capital and resided at Puhong Temple, where he fabricated this sūtra. Moreover, he wrote it onto folding screens, covered them behind red gossamer, and made offerings of incense and flowers. The fourfold assembly gathered like clouds, and donations and offerings piled up like thick smoke. When the origin of the affair came to light, an imperial decree remanded him to Jiankang to interrogate the suspect circumstances. It was said that he had excerpted various sūtras, incorporating much of his private notions, and that he had falsely engaged Lu Yan, a copyist, to compose the phrasing and polish the text. The judicial file reported that Miaoguang's deceitful fraud warranted execution, while Lu Yan was an accomplice, sentenced to ten years of penal military servitude. Thereupon, on the twenty-first day of the fourth month of that year, an imperial decree ordered the Rectifier of Monks, Huichao, to summon twenty elder masters capable of lecturing on the great Dharma in the capital, such as Sengyou and Tanzhun, to go together before the Jiankang magistrate to interrogate Miaoguang's affair. Huichao then received the decree and, together with twenty men including Tanzhun, Sengyou, Fachong, Huiling, Huiji, Zhizang, Sengmin, and Fayun, conducted the interrogation at the county office. Miaoguang confessed to his crime, every detail conforming to the official report. The assembly of monks deliberated carefully and decided to banish and penalize him in accordance with the Vinaya; through imperial clemency his life was spared, but fearing that he would stir up delusion and chaos again in outlying regions, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Dongzhi jail. Thereupon over twenty copies of this sūtra along with the folding screens were gathered up and burned at the county office. Yet some scattered copies still remain; fearing they may confuse future generations, I have therefore recorded a brief summary of the matter (the elder Sapuosuoduohu [Sarvajña] was the name of Miaoguang's father; Miaoguang's younger brother was named Jingangdeti [Vajraguṇakāya]; and his disciple was named Shizi [Siṃha]).

Fayuan jing (Scripture of the Dharma Garden), one hundred eighty-nine fascicles.
Excerpted as the Fa sheshen jing (Scripture on Renouncing the Body for the Dharma), six fascicles.
The above two works were probably compiled in recent times; the date and the compiler's name are unknown. They completely gathered the various sūtras together and grouped them by category. Since it was given the title "Fayuan jing", it might be suspected of being a distinct sūtra; therefore, I have recorded its title to show future scholars. Although the number of fascicles is large, they are still the various sūtras of the preceding catalogues; hence they do not enter the numerical count of the sections.