貞元新定釋教目錄 13.3.5

13.3.5

[Muktaka], the Ekottarakarma, the Vinayasaṃgraha, and the like; the Hastavāla, the Hetudvāra-pratītyasamutpāda (Trikālaparīkṣā), the *Ṣaṇmukhagopadeśa-śāstra, and the like; and Nāgārjuna's Suhṛllekha: the above twenty works in one hundred and fifteen fascicles. The North Indian śramaṇa Anizhenna verified the Sanskrit text and meaning. The śramaṇas Baolun, Fuli, Huibiao, Zhiji, and others transcribed the text and verified the wording. The śramaṇas Fabao, Fazang, Degan, Shengzhuang, Shenying, Renliang, Dayi, Cixun, and others verified the meaning. Xu Guan, Assistant Professor of the Directorate of Education, supervised and safeguarded [the work]. It was transcribed and presented to the inner palace. The Empress Dowager (Wu Zetian) composed the "Preface to the Newly Translated Sacred Teachings" and ordered it prefixed to the start of the scriptures. Coming to the dragon-arising of Emperor Zhongzong, in the first year of the Shenlong era (705), yisi, he translated the Mayūrī-rāñjñī-sūtra in the inner bodhimaṇḍa of the Eastern Capital. Furthermore, at the Great Fuxian Monastery, he translated such scriptures as the Suvikrāntadevaputra-paripṛcchā, the Gandharājadharābodhisattva-dhāraṇī, and the Sarvaguṇālaṅkāradharā. For the above four works in six fascicles, the śramaṇa Bandhu read the Sanskrit text; the śramaṇa Xuanzan transcribed the text; the śramaṇa Dayi verified the wording; and the śramaṇas Shengzhuang, Lizheng, and others verified the meaning. Cui Shi, Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, and Lu Can, Supervising Secretary, polished the text and rectified the characters. Yang Shenjiao, Chief of the Palace Library Secretariat, Imperial Consort Officer, and Duke of the State of Guan, supervised and safeguarded [the work]. Emperor Zhongzong esteemed the Buddhist scriptures from his heart and composed a preface extolling them, titled "Great Tang Longxing Tripiṭaka Sacred Teachings Preface". The Emperor attended the western gate of the city of Luoyang, promulgated to all the populace what [Yijing] had newly translated, and ordered all [works] to prefix it. In the second year, bingwu (706), he accompanied the imperial entourage back to the capital. An imperial edict was issued to separately establish a Translation Hall at the Great Jianfu Monastery to house him. In the third year, dingwei (707), the Emperor summoned him to enter the palace, together with the translation śramaṇas, to keep the ninety-day summer retreat. Because the Emperor had previously resided in Fangling under dark adversity with no recourse, he had prayed to Bhaiṣajyaguru and thereupon received descending blessings. Celebrating this past grace, he wished to widely propagate the great undertaking; he therefore commanded the followers of the Dharma to translate further. In the Foguang Hall of the Great Inner Palace, a two-fascicle translation was completed, titled Saptabuddhadīpanirmāṇa-bhaiṣajyaguru-pūrvapraṇidhānapuṇyaviśeṣa-sūtra. The Emperor attended the Dharma gathering and transcribed the text with his own hand. Further, in the fourth year of the Jinglong era, gengxu (710), at the Great Jianfu Monastery, he translated the [Mūlasarvāstivāda-]yuxiang gongde (Bathing the Image Merit Sūtra), the Shuzhu gongde (Rosary Merit Sūtra), the Cintāmaṇi, the Uṣṇīṣavijayā, the Banchu zuizhang (Eradicating Sins and Obstacles), the Chujia rutai (Going Forth into the Womb), the Wuyun jie kong (Five Aggregates are Empty), the San zhuan falun (Three Turnings of the Dharma Wheel), the Dṛṣṭānta, the Cure of Hemorrhoids, and other sūtras; the Mūlasarvāstivāda-bhikṣuṇī-vinaya, the Vinayavastu, the Prātimokṣa-sūtras of the two assemblies, the Vinayagāthā, the Nidānamuktaka-saṃgrahagāthā, the Vijñaptimātratā-ratnāṅkura, the Ālambanaparīkṣā-ṭīkā, and the like: the above twenty works in eighty-eight fascicles. The Tokharian śramaṇa Dharmamoma and the Central Indian śramaṇa Zhuangnu verified the Sanskrit meaning; the Kashmīrī śramaṇa Dharmananda verified the Sanskrit text; the East Indian layman and chieftain Īśvara verified the Indic manuscript. The śramaṇa Huiji, the Central Indian layman Li Shijia, and the Secretarial Drafter Dupoduo read the Indic manuscript. The śramaṇas Wenwang, Huizhao, Lizheng, Shengzhuang, Aitong, Siheng, and others verified the meaning. The śramaṇas Xuanzan, Zhiji, and others transcribed the text. The East Indian layman Gautama-vajra and Prince A顺 (Aśun/Aśoka?) of the kingdom of Kaśmīra verified the translation. More than twenty individuals—including Li Qiao, Grand Academician of the Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Specially Advanced and Duke of the State of Zhao; Wei Sili, Minister of War and Duke of Xiaoyao; Zhao Yanzhao, Vice Director of the Secretariat; Lu Zangyong, Vice Minister of Personnel; Zhang Yue, Vice Minister of War; and Li Yi and Su Ting, Secretariat Drafters—arranged the prose and polished the style. Wei Juyuan, Left Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs and Duke of the State of Shu, and Su Gui, Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs and Duke of the State of Xu, oversaw the translation; Secretariat Director Prince Siyong oversaw and protected it. Furthermore, in the second year of the Jingyun era of Emperor Ruizong, xinhai (711), at the Great Jianfu Monastery he again translated the Praise of the Tathāgata's Merit Divine Dhāraṇī, the Sūtra of the Dharma Seal Preached by the Buddha for the Dragon King, the Abridged Admonitions, and other sūtras; the Verses of the Vajracchedikā-śāstra, the Commentary on the Nyāyamukha, the Verses on the Examination of General Characteristics, the Verses on the Gate of Śamatha and Vipaśyanā, the Hastadaṇḍa, and other treatises; as well as the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, the Pramāṇasamuccaya, and the Śatapañcāśatka-stotra—in all, twelve works in twenty fascicles. The śramaṇas Harimati, Utideva, and others read the Indic text; the śramaṇas Xuanzan, Zhiji, and others transcribed the text; the śramaṇa Huizhao and others verified the meaning; and Sa Chongyin, Director of Imperial Sacrifices and Duke of the State of Wei, supervised and guarded it. In total, from the first year of the Jiushi era of Empress Wu, gengzi (700), to the second year of the Jingyun era of Emperor Ruizong, xinhai (711), he translated fifty-six works in two hundred and thirty fascicles in total. Furthermore, he independently composed the Record of Eminent Monks Who Sought the Dharma in the Western Regions during the Great Tang, the Account of Buddhism Sent Home from the South Seas, the Essential Rules for Specific Confession of Transgressions, the Essential Rules for the Use of the Three Waters, and the Ritual Procedures for Protecting the Dharma and Releasing Living Beings, making five works in nine fascicles altogether. In addition, he translated the vastus of the Sarvāstivāda (namely, of the category of skandhaka and varga found in various vinayas; the Sanskrit phonetic terms merely differ between north and south) in approximately seventy to eighty fascicles; having merely produced the literal draft and not yet having had the leisure to edit and polish them, he suddenly entered nirvāṇa, and those texts were subsequently set aside. Yijing also extracted various avadānas from the Sarvāstivāda Vinaya to circulate as separate works, such as the Makara Avadāna, making forty-two sūtras in forty-nine fascicles. Since these are separately extracted sūtras, they are not counted in the regular tally of translations; they are recorded now in the catalogue of separately extracted works, where their titles are fully listed as in the catalogue of eliminating redundancies. Although Yijing translated across all three baskets of the canon, his special focus was on the Vinaya division. In the leisure left from translating and compiling, he personally instructed his disciples; in all affairs of conduct, he placed urgency upon their practice. Filtering water and washing away defilements were extraordinarily different from the ordinary crowd. His fellow learners practiced and transmitted it everywhere throughout the capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang. How excellent! This too was a glorious event for the bequeathed Dharma! As the Tripiṭaka master was flourishing in the Way and advancing in years, he showed signs of slight illness. On the nineteenth day of the first month of the third year of the Jingyun era, renzi (712), the era name was changed to the first year of Taiji. On the twenty-second day of the second month, his disciple, the bhikṣu Chongxu, had a portrait painted of the Tripiṭaka Preceptor (Upādhyāya); the Preceptor was seventy-eight years old at the time. Emperor Ruizong, the Great Holy and True Emperor, composed a eulogy: