[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大乘起信論略述](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813) › 1.3 # 大乘起信論略述 1.3 大乘起信論略述 1.3 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.3) 至覺潛輝異學峯起。不有甄述正法斯訛。故大士馬鳴發揮真諦。括眾論綰群經。破二邊協中道。作此正論以獎將來。福潤河沙聲流法界。張皇教義融會真筌。為學人之宗源作道者之龜鏡。故先賢碩德開釋巨多。廣略之體互殊。是非之途或異。臨文俯義得失交。并有建康沙門曇曠者。幼而好學長而成德。妙閑製述善□清詞。先造廣釋後學賴焉。包含事理網羅邪正。無執而不改有疑而不皆遣。恐初心者仰崇崖而起退望渤海而迷神廼。復探其旨歸為之略述。可謂尋其源而知其流折其檊而得其枝。至如開發題端該談教藏。傍探異說委闢義門。引經證成會論宗趣。法喻周舉問答折疑略而不明。具如廣釋。好博聞者尋而究之。且欲指陳綰攝綱要。澄漪不才喜承餘論揚攉深旨以示方來。冀法鏡高懸真風不墜耳。 > When the radiance of the ultimate awakening was hidden, rival schools arose like peaks. Without selection and exposition, the true Dharma would have become corrupted. Therefore, the great being Aśvaghoṣa elucidated the ultimate truth. He embraced all treatises and integrated the many sūtras, shattering the two extremes and harmonizing with the Middle Way, composing this orthodox treatise to encourage future \[generations\]. Its blessings moisten \[as many beings as the\] sands of the Gaṅgā, and its renown flows throughout the dharmadhātu. Displaying and exalting the doctrinal principles, it unifies the true fish-trap \[of teachings\]; it serves as the foundational source for students and acts as a guiding mirror for practitioners of the Way. Therefore, former worthies and eminent masters have expounded upon it in great numbers. The formats of their comprehensive and condensed works differ from one another, and their paths of judging right and wrong are at times divergent; when approaching the text and looking down into its principles, merits and shortcomings mingle. Now there was the Śramaṇa Dankuang of Jiankang, who was fond of learning in his youth and attained virtue as he matured. Wonderfully adept in composition and skilled in clear phrasing, he had previously composed a comprehensive commentary upon which later students relied. It encompassed both phenomenal reality and noumenon, embracing both the heterodox and the orthodox; there was no clinging that it did not rectify, and no doubt that it did not completely dispel. Fearing that beginners, gazing up at the towering cliff, might draw back, or looking out at the vast sea, might lose their way, he subsequently investigated its ultimate intent and produced this brief exposition. It may be said that he traced its source and knew its streams, cut its trunk and obtained its branches. As for opening up the title and comprehensively discussing the doctrinal canon, broadly investigating divergent views, thoroughly unfolding doctrinal gates, citing sūtras to establish proof, and harmonizing the treatise's core destination—with principles and metaphors fully presented, and questions and answers resolving doubts—these are abbreviated without being fully elucidated \[here\], being fully set forth in the comprehensive commentary. Those who delight in broad learning may investigate and examine it there; here, he merely wished to point out and articulate the essential outline. Chengyi, lacking talent, rejoices to receive these remaining discourses, setting forth the profound intent to show it to future \[generations\], hoping that the Dharma mirror will be suspended high and that the true breeze will never falter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.2) - [Next: 1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.4) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813~en-mt.1.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.3) · Pramāṇa