開元釋教錄 18.3

18.3

疑惑錄者。自梵經東闡年將七百。教有興廢時復遷移。先後翻傳卷將萬計。部帙既廣尋閱難周。定錄之人隨聞便上。而不細尋宗旨理或疑焉。今恐真偽交參是非相涉。故為別錄以示將來。庶明達高人重為詳定。

Regarding the Catalogue of Doubted Texts: nearly seven hundred years have passed since the Indian scriptures were propagated eastward. The teachings have known flourish and decline, and the eras have changed. Across the successive translations, the fascicles count nearly in the tens of thousands. With the works and cases so vast, perusing them exhaustively is difficult. Those who fixed previous catalogues registered entries immediately upon hearing of them, without scrutinising their tenets closely, so that their reasoning may be doubted. Now, fearing that authentic and spurious texts may be intermingled, and right and wrong confounded, I have made this separate catalogue to show to the future, hoping that enlightened and eminent scholars will re-examine and determine them.