大唐內典錄 4.12

4.12

弘傳聖教隨代興隆。其中高者無越梁祖。行字叔達。蘭陵人也。承齊建命亦都建康。登極思濟同契等覺。垂拱臨朝盛弘經教。廣延博古旁採遺文。扇以淳風利之法俗。祖禰相承尊事老氏。及臨大寶下勅斷之。唯以佛宗開物成務。天監七年。帝以正像浸末信重漸微。三藏彌綸鮮能該洽。勅沙門僧旻等撰經律異相。以類相從。凡五十卷。皇太子綱撰法寶聯璧二百餘卷。諸餘雜集其徒寔繁。又勅沙門僧紹撰華林佛殿眾經目錄四卷。帝具省之周洽未委。又勅沙門寶唱更纘經目。乃顯譯有無證經真偽。凡十七科。頗為覶縷。前後二梁。凡七帝。八十七年。五十年在金陵。餘在江陵。譯經道俗二十一人。所出經律傳記等九十部。凡七百八十卷。為二梁錄云。

The propagation of the sacred teaching flourished with the successive dynasties, among which none surpassed the Liang founder in greatness. His taboo name was Yan and his courtesy name was Shuda, a native of Lanling. Inheriting the mandate from the Qi, he likewise set his capital at Jiankang. Upon ascending the throne, his thought was to liberate beings, sharing the same realization as Equal Enlightenment. Ruling with hands folded and robes draped, he greatly promoted the scriptural teachings, widely inviting those versed in antiquity and broadly gathering the remaining texts. Fanning the pure breeze, he benefited both the Dharma and the laity. His ancestors had successively revered Laozi, but upon ascending the imperial throne, he issued an edict to abolish this, exclusively taking the Buddhist doctrine to enlighten beings and accomplish undertakings. In the seventh year of Tianjian, considering that the periods of the Saddharma and the Semblance Dharma were fading and faith was gradually waning, and that the Tripiṭaka was so vast that few could master it completely, the emperor decreed that the monk Sengmin and others compile the *Jinglü yixiang*, grouped by categories, in a total of fifty fascicles. Crown Prince Gang compiled the *Fabao lianbi* in more than two hundred fascicles. Other miscellaneous compilations were indeed numerous. He further decreed that the monk Sengshao compile the *Hualin fodian zhongjing mulu* in four fascicles. The emperor examined it thoroughly and found it was not comprehensive or detailed enough. He further decreed that the monk Baochang recompile the scriptural catalogue, thereby clarifying the presence or absence of translations and verifying the authenticity of scriptures, in a total of seventeen categories, which was quite detailed. Throughout the two Liang dynasties, there were seven emperors over eighty-seven years, fifty years at Jinling and the remainder at Jiangling. There were twenty-one translators among both the clergy and laity; the sūtras, vinayas, biographies, and records produced amounted to ninety works, totaling 780 fascicles, constituting the Record of the Two Liang Dynasties.