古今譯經圖紀 3.38

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沙門寶雲西涼州人。自少出家精勤碩學。志韻剛潔不偶世群。求法懇惻忘身殉道。遂以晉隆安年初西尋靈迹。經羅剎之野聞天鼓之音。禮釋迦影迹受羅漢之語。歷遊西方善梵書語。印度字音訓釋辭句悉皆備解。後來長安復至江左。諸翻譯人傳譯梵語於雲為最。初與智嚴共同出經。嚴既遷化雲獨宣譯。以宋文帝元嘉年中。於六合山寺。譯佛本行讚經傳（七卷）。付法藏經（六卷）。佛所行讚經傳（五卷）。新無量壽經（二卷）。新淨度三昧經（二卷）。總四部合十五卷。沙門慧觀等友而善之。

The śramaṇa Baoyun was a native of Xiliangzhou. He underwent pravrajyā from his youth, being diligent and vastly learned. His character and air were resolute and pure, not consorting with the worldly crowd. With earnest devotion in seeking the Dharma, he forgot his physical self to dedicate his life to the Way. Thus, in the beginning of the Long'an era of the Jin, he journeyed west in search of holy traces. Passing through the wilderness of rākṣasas, he heard the sound of heavenly drums; paying homage to the shadow-trace of Śākyamuni, he received the words of arhats. Traveling through the Western regions, he became skilled in Sanskrit script and language; he thoroughly understood the sounds of Indian characters and the semantic glosses of expressions and sentences. Later, he returned to Chang'an and then went to Jiangzuo. Among all the translators rendering Sanskrit into Chinese, Baoyun was foremost. At first, he translated scriptures together with Zhiyan; after Zhiyan passed away, Baoyun proclaimed and translated on his own. During the Yuanjia era of Emperor Wen of the Song, at Liuhe Mountain Monastery, he translated: the Biography of the Sūtra of the Praise of the Buddha's Deeds (seven fascicles), the Sūtra on the Transmission of the Dharma Pitaka (six fascicles), the Biography of the Buddhacarita Sūtra (five fascicles), the New Amitāyus Sūtra (two fascicles), and the New Sūtra of the Samādhi of Pure Deliverance (two fascicles)—four works in total, fifteen fascicles altogether. The śramaṇa Huiguan and others befriended and held him in high esteem.