佛說佛名經 1.94

1.94

The *Zhenyuan Record* states: "Because this scripture intermingles vulgar and crude language with sacred words, although the base scripture is genuine, because of the spurious additions, it was judged in this manner and catalogued in the 'Record of Spurious and False Texts Confusing the True', not to be admitted into the canon. Whether it was permissible or not remained thus for several centuries. On the twenty-third day of the tenth month of the fifteenth year of the Zhenyuan era, an imperial decree was promulgated concerning the *Great Sūtra on the Names of the Buddhas*. General of the Left and Right Gate-Guarding Guards and Director of the Palace Domestic Service Ma Chengqian memorialized: 'The aforementioned scripture has not been entered into the canon catalogue; by imperial decree, the relevant office should be ordered to append it to the catalogue. As for the errors and absurdities, where they have been divided please unite them, and where united please divide them. For all such matters, I humbly request correction, so as to satisfy human hopes below and accord with the Heavenly Mind above, compiling it into the *Newly Settled Catalogue of Śākya's Teachings of the Zhenyuan Era*, transmitting it as from the Liang dynasty and appending it to the Liang era.' Collator's note: 'Now examining the national edition of the Tripiṭaka, within cases *hui* and *han*, there is also an eighteen-fascicle version of this scripture. Collating it against this thirty-fascicle version, although the number of fascicles differs, the text and meaning are entirely the same; only, for the single form of the kṣamā text, this scripture repeats it twice, while that one repeats it thrice; also, the apocryphal scripture of Baoda is present here but absent there, which is a minor difference.