貞元新定釋教目錄 20.18

20.18

(The reason the Prajñā sūtras are established first is that [wisdom] is the mother of all Buddhas. In the older catalogues, the arrangement had no order. Now, in this catalogue, the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna sūtras are all arranged in sequence according to their class and category: the Hīnayāna vinayas are arranged fully according to fundamental and derivative traditions; the Mahāyāna treatises place those that comment on an extant sūtra first and arrange those that collect and interpret meanings after them; the Hīnayāna treatises are arranged according to the sequence of their schools, with the Jñānaprasthāna first, the six Pādas following it, and the Vibhāṣās and other offshoots compiled at the end; the anthologies and biographies of sages and saints are divided into internal and external, since the Great Xia and the Divine Land differ as East and West. The aim is to make the categories distinct so that readers may easily understand them).