貞元新定釋教目錄 21.12.2

21.12.2

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou, the Indian Tripiṭaka master Yaśogupta translated one text entitled *Jinguangming jing gengguang shouliang dabian tuoluoni jing* (Sūtra of the Golden Light: Further Expanding the Span of Life and Great Eloquence Dhāraṇī), forming a work in five fascicles. In carefully examining this title now, it is not a complete translation. It merely continued and expounded two chapters within Dharmakṣema's four-fascicle scripture: in the 'Span of Life' chapter, it further continued its text, and in the 'Great Eloquence' chapter, it further expanded the dhāraṇī rituals; as it also continued [passages] within other chapters, it is called *Further Expanding the Span of Life and Great Eloquence Dhāraṇī Sūtra*. Therefore, the preface to the combined six-fascicle scripture states: 'The