大唐內典錄 4.6.3
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4.6.3
Essential Methods of the Five Gates of Dhyāna Sūtra (found in You's and Chang's catalogues)
Sūtra on the Method of Contemplating Bodhisattva Samantabhadra (extracted from the profound Merit Sūtra; also titled Samantabhadra Contemplation Sūtra; found in You's catalogue)
Ākāśagarbha Contemplation Sūtra (also titled Contemplating Bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha; also without the word "Contemplating"; found in Daohui's and Sengyou's catalogues)
Sarvadharma-vīrarāja Sūtra (found in Li Kuo's catalogue)
Sūtra on the Buddha Ascending to Trāyastriṃśa Heaven to Expound the Dharma for His Mother
Sūtra on Transforming the Female Body
Sūtra on the Elephant's Armpit
Sūtra of the Questions of the Elder Ugra
Sūtra of Bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha's Divine Dhāraṇī (the above six sūtras are all found in Li Kuo's Northern Wei Catalogue)
The above ten texts in twelve fascicles. In the reign of Emperor Wen, the Kashmirian Tripiṭaka master and Dhyāna master Dharmamitra (in Song called Faxiu), born with connected eyebrows, was deep and introspective in character, possessing profound wisdom and discernment. Benign spirits continually cloaked themselves and secretly protected him. Whenever he reached a country's border, the spirits invariably appeared in dreams to notify its king; it was likewise when he departed. He took traveling afar to teach and transform beings as his vow. By nature he was pure in practice, not bound by fame or profit. When he first arrived in Dunhuang, he immediately established a meditation pavilion in an open and quiet spot, planting a thousand crabapple trees and cultivating a garden of a hundred mu. The meditating congregation was magnificent, and those hastening to him were like clouds. In the beginning of the Yuanjia era, he came to Jianye and stayed at Zhongsi, and later took rest at Zhihuan Monastery. Thereupon he translated dhyāna sūtras and divine dhāraṇīs, and in addition transmitted painted depictions of the icon of the spirit king Kapila, which to this day serve as standard models.
Sūtra on Contemplating the Two Bodhisattvas Bhaiṣajyarāja and Bhaiṣajyasamudgata
Sūtra on the Contemplation of the Buddha of Immeasurable Life (the above two sūtras are both found in Daohui's Song-Qi Catalogue and the Biographies of Eminent Monks)
The above, in the reign of Emperor Wen, by the Western Region monk Kālayaśas (in Song called Shicheng). He was unyielding and upright by nature, with few desires, well-versed in the Tripiṭaka, knowledgeable in many matters, and particularly skilled in meditative contemplation. In the beginning of the Yuanjia era, he reached the Chinese capital. The Emperor esteemed him greatly and decreed that he reside in Daolin Hermitage on Mount Zhong. Because the above two sūtras are the secret arts for removing hindrances and the vast causes for the Pure Land, which he constantly held and recited, the monk Senghan requested him to translate them, and Han personally scribed them.
Sūtra on the Prediction of Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (the second translation; slightly different from Dharmarakṣa's translation)
Record of Foreign Countries in five fascicles (Jie's personal account of his travels in the Western Regions)
The above two texts in six fascicles. In the first year of Yongchu of Emperor Wu, the monk Dharmodgata (in Song called Fayong) of the State of Huanglong gathered like-minded companions, including monk Sengmeng and twenty-five others, to travel together to the Western Regions. Over more than twenty years, all the others passed away; only Jie returned alone to Kashmir, where he copied and acquired the Sanskrit text of the aforementioned sūtra and brought it back. In the late Yuanjia era he reached Jiangzuo, and in Yangdu translated it himself. Recorded in the catalogues of Wang Zong, Sengyou, Huijiao, Li Kuo, and Fashang.
Sūtra on the Secret and Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Illnesses in two fascicles (translated in the second year of Xiaojian at Zhuyuan Monastery; sometimes without the word "sūtra"; found in Zu's, You's, and Chang's catalogues)
Sūtra on King Śuddhodana's Parinirvāṇa (second translation)
Sūtra on the Eight-Precept Retreat (a variant translation)
Sūtra on King Puming
Sūtra on the Greatness of the Buddha and the Greatness of the Saṅgha (name seen thrice)
Sūtra on the Transformation of Consciousness in Birth and Death
Sūtra on King Fenhetan
Sūtra on the Elder Yinyue
Sūtra on the Virtuous One's Monastic Demeanour (also titled Demeanour)
Sūtra on Advancing Learning
Sūtra on the Upāsaka's Five Precepts (also titled Sūtra on the Five Marks)
Sūtra on Xieqi
Sūtra on Moda
Sūtra on the Five Hundred Brahmacārins
Sūtra on Zhantuoyue
Sūtra on the Great Meaning of the Five Reciprocities
Sūtra on Kāśyapa's Prohibitive Precepts
Sūtra on the Disciple Who Died and Returned to Life
Sūtra on the Auspicious and Inauspicious Results of Disciples Serving the Buddha
Sūtra of Verses on the Five Sufferings
Sūtra on the Śākyas Inquiring of the Upāsaka (extracted from the Saṃyuktāgama)
Sūtra on King Prasenajit Mourning His Mother
Sūtra on the Bodhisattva's Vow
Sūtra on the Intermediate State
Sūtra on the Bhikṣu Lin'yi
Sūtra on the Buddha's Mother Entering Parinirvāṇa (translated in the second year of Xiaojian at Dinglin Monastery on Mount Zhong; found in You's catalogue; also titled Mahāprajāpatī Sūtra)
Sūtra on King Fanmo
Sūtra on the Upāsaka's Five Dharmas
Sūtra on the Five Terrifying Ages
Sūtra on King Malla
Sūtra on Contemplating Bodhisattva Maitreya's Ascent to Tuṣita Heaven (found in Daohui's Song-Qi Catalogue and Records of the Tripiṭaka)
Sūtra on the Contemplation of Avalokiteśvara
Sūtra on Admonishing the King
Sūtra on the Pure Faithful Layman Ayishan (also titled Sūtra on the Father and Son Ayishanchi)
Sūtra on the Disciple's Arrogance Related for Jīvaka (also titled Sūtra on the Disciple Relating Arrogance for Jīvaka; or Sūtra on the Disciple's Playful Fabrication; those above without noted locations are all from the Separate Catalogue)
The above thirty-five texts, total thirty-six fascicles. In the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, Juqu Jingsheng, Marquis of Anyang and cousin of Juqu Mengxun, King of Hexi in the Northern Liang. When the fortune of Liang came to an end and it was destroyed by the Yuan Wei, Jingsheng fled secretly south to Jiankang. Concealing his ambitions and humbling himself, he avoided social contact with the secular world, constantly visiting and staying at stupas and monasteries, humbling himself as a layman. Forswearing wife and family, indifferent to glory and profit, he leisurely joined with companions of the Dharma to propagate the orthodox teachings. For this reason, both monastics and laity respected him. Having long chanted and practiced the various essential miscellaneous sūtras listed above, he transcribed and composed them before the assembly without any obstruction. Meng Yi, the Governor of Danyang, admired him and rewarded him generously; see the Biographies of Eminent Monks.
Sūtra on the Bodhisattva's Buddha-Contemplation Samādhi in six fascicles (also titled Buddha-Contemplation Samādhi Sūtra; found in Daohui's Song-Qi Catalogue)
Sūtra on the Boundless Gate Dispelling Māra Dhāraṇī (or Boundless Gate; found in Sengyou's catalogue)
The above two texts in seven fascicles. In the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, the Western Region monk Guṇabhadra translated them in the sixth year of Daming in Jingzhou for the monk Shi Xuanchang. Chang rectified the text and meaning, and the phraseology was subtle and precise. Now Chang could extend his hand and emit fragrance, with flowing water in his palm, the reason for which could not be fathomed. Later he went to Chengdu and resided at Dashi Monastery, which was the site of an Aśoka stupa. He then fashioned with his own hands sixteen divine statues such as Guhyapada Vajra, which have been passed down to this day.
Bhaiṣajyaguru-vaiḍūryaprabhā Sūtra (translated in the first year of Daming; also titled Eradication of Sins and Transgression and Liberation from Birth and Death; also named Consecration; extracted from the Consecration Sūtra; marked as doubtful in You's catalogue; Changfang verified that it was an Indian text and now there is a Sanskrit original, differing only slightly in the spirit's words)
Sūtra on Merchants Seeking Wealth
Sūtra on the Sangha-King's Five Messengers (doubt regarding the word Sangha)
Sūtra on Prince Sujāta (also an alternate translation of the Sūtra on Bowing in Six Directions)
Sūtra on the Indolent Plowman (titled Indolent Plowman Sees the Sūtra in the old catalogue)
Sūtra on Śākya Ending His Retribution (one edition has the word "Jia"; extracted from the Jātaka Sūtra)
Sūtra on the Impoverished Old Man (or Impoverished Old Person)
Sūtra on Sacrificing One's Body to Save Merchants (extracted from the Saṭpāramitā-saṃgraha)
Sūtra on the Person in Śrāvastī Driven Mad by the Death of His Child (extracted from the Āgama)
Avadāna Sūtra
Sūtra on the Method of Inviting Piṇḍola
Sūtra on Ānanda Seeing the Auspicious Sign of Water Light (also titled Water Light Sūtra)
Sūtra on Incantations and Wishes
Sūtra on Gautamī's Prediction of the Fruit
Sūtra on the Disordered Mind of the Student (also titled Sūtra on the Disordered Mind of Mother and Son Becoming Monk and Nun; extracted from the Ekottarikāgama)
Sūtra on Secretly Becoming a Monk
Sūtra on the Buddha's Mother Entering Parinirvāṇa (slightly different from the Marquis of Anyang's translation)
Sūtra on the Elder's Son Leaving the Household Six Times (extracted from the Udāna Sūtra)
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