毘尼心 1.8

1.8

The fourth is the Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya. The Vinaya master was named Vātsīputrīya. In this land was the monk Faxian, who made light of his own body and valued the Dharma, traveling on his own to the foreign lands to seek scriptures. Arriving in the kingdom of Magadha, at Devarāja Monastery to the south of King Aśoka's stupa in the city of Pāṭaliputra, he copied and obtained the foreign text and brought it back to this land. In the eleventh month of the twelfth year of the Yixi era of the Jin, he arrived in Yangzhou, and at Daochang Monastery translated it together with the Tripiṭaka meditation master Buddhabhadra, along with the six-fascicle Nirvāṇa-sūtra. The monk Baoyun translated the foreign text into Chinese. In the fourteenth year it was completely finished. The dissemination of the vinaya teachings: the Mahāsāṃghika is the fourth.