大唐內典錄 1.8

1.8

Ever since the teaching blanketed the Divine Land, time has passed through nine eras. Dynasties were divided into legitimate and illegitimate, and the land was a mix of Chinese and barbarians. Thus, there were the Five Liang, Four Yan, Three Qin, and Two Zhao; the locations of the Xia and Shu were narrow and marginal; the Jin and Song held the lands south of the Yangtze. The translation and transmission of scriptural sections emerged according to each region. Here I list only the concurrent and orthodox states to capture what their translations derived from; the rest are not mentioned because they lacked universal teachings. May later readers understand this rationale.