[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [古今譯經圖紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2151) › 1.5 # 古今譯經圖紀 1.5 古今譯經圖紀 1.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2151.1.5) 沙門竺法蘭。中印度人。少而機悟淹雅博愛。多通禪思毘尼莫不窮妙。誦經百餘萬言。學徒千餘。居不求安常懷弘利。戒軌嚴峻眾莫能窺。遇愔求請便有輕舉之志而國主不聽。密與騰同來間行後至。以漢明帝時初共騰譯四十二章經騰卒。蘭以永平十一年歲次戊辰至十三年庚午。自譯佛本行經（五卷）。十地斷結經（四卷）。法海藏經（三卷）。佛本生經（二卷）。二百六十戒合異（二卷）總五部一十六卷。初武帝穿昆明池得灰墨。問東方朔。朔云。可問西域胡人。法蘭既至時以追問。蘭曰。此是劫燒之灰。又將優填王旃檀像樣至洛。帝即勅令圖寫供養。 > The śramaṇa Dharmaratna was a native of Central India. In his youth he was quick-witted, elegant, and universally loving. He was well-versed in meditative contemplation, and in the vinaya there was nothing whose subtlety he had not plumbed. He had recited by heart over a million words of scriptures, and his disciples numbered over a thousand. In his dwelling he did not seek comfort, but was constantly mindful of broadly benefiting \[others\]. His disciplinary rules were strict and exacting, so that the assembly could not find fault. When he encountered Yin's invitation, he immediately had the resolve to set out light-heartedly, but the king of his country would not permit it. He secretly came together with Mātanga, travelling by back roads, and arrived later. During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Han, he initially translated the Sūtra of Forty-two Chapters together with Mātanga; after Mātanga passed away, from the eleventh year of the Yongping reign era, the year being wuchen, to the thirteenth year, gengwu, Ratna translated by himself: the Sūtra of the Buddha's Past Acts (in five fascicles), the Sūtra of Severing Fetters on the Ten Stages (in four fascicles), the Sūtra of the Ocean Treasury of the Dharma (in three fascicles), the Jātaka Sūtra of the Buddha (in two fascicles), and the Concordance of the Two Hundred and Sixty Precepts (in two fascicles)—in total, five works in sixteen fascicles. Earlier, when Emperor Wu dug the Kunming Pool, he found black ash. He asked Dongfang Shuo about it, and Shuo said: "You may ask the barbarians of the Western Regions." Once Dharmaratna arrived, he was subsequently questioned about it, and Ratna said: "This is the ash from the kalpa fire." Furthermore, he brought to Luoyang a model of King Udayana's sandalwood statue, and the Emperor immediately ordered that it be painted and copied for worship. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2151.1.4) - [Next: 1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2151.1.6) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2151.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2151~en-mt.1.5) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [歷代三寶紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.4.11) — Classical Chinese - [翻譯名義集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2131.1.195) — 法雲, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2151.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2151.1.5) · Pramāṇa