開元釋教錄 13.3

13.3

聲聞藏者。小乘所詮之教也。能說教主。則示生示滅應物隨緣。所詮之教。則九部四含毘曇戒律。善男善女。稟之而脫屣塵勞。緣覺聲聞。奉之而昇乎彼岸。蓋真乘之小駕。乃菩提之化城。誘進初心莫斯為勝。始乎仙苑迄彼金河。所詮半字之文。是謂聲聞之藏。洎乎百川同會三車共適。齊登妙覺俱證泥洹。豈有小大之異名。信為我尊之漸誘者也。始自漢明丁卯之歲。終我開元庚午之年。小乘三藏見流行者。總三百三十部。一千七百六十二卷。一百六十五帙。結為聲聞法藏。科條別顯具如後列。

The Śrāvakapiṭaka is the teaching explained by the Hīnayāna. The Master of the Teachings who could deliver it manifested birth and manifested extinction, responding to beings and according with conditions. The teachings explained comprise the nine divisions, the four āgamas, the abhidharma, and the vinaya. Good men and good women receive them and cast off the dust of worldly toil; pratyekabuddhas and śrāvakas uphold them and ascend to the other shore. Truly, this is the small vehicle of the true chariot, the conjured city on the way to bodhi; for guiding and advancing beginners, nothing surpasses it. Beginning in the Garden of the Sages and ending at that Golden River, the texts expounding the half-letter syllables are called the Śrāvakapiṭaka. When the hundred rivers meet as one and the three carts proceed together, all alike ascend to wondrous enlightenment and all together realize nirvāṇa. How could there be distinct names of 'small' and 'great'? Truly, these were our Honoured One's gradual enticements. From the dingmao year of Emperor Ming of the Han [67 CE] to the gengwu year of our Kaiyuan era [730 CE], the Hīnayāna Tripiṭaka currently in circulation totals 330 works, in 1,762 fascicles and 165 cases, arranged as the Dharma-piṭaka of the Śrāvakas. The sections and divisions are displayed below in full.