遁倫

遁倫之名，在漢傳藏中只出現在他自己那部書上。八帙僧傳與目錄逐一搜過，「遁倫」二字零命中——沒有傳，沒有鄉里，沒有師承，沒有生卒。四十八卷《瑜伽論記》，每一卷卷端都署「釋遁倫集撰」〔T42n1828 0311a05〕；除此之外，藏中關於他的，只剩一篇跋。

The name Dunlun occurs in the Chinese canon only on the book he made. The eight biographies and catalogues were searched one by one in this session and the two characters do not appear once — no life, no native place, no teachers, no dates. Each of the forty-eight fascicles of the Record on the Yogācārabhūmi is headed "compiled by the monk Dunlun" 〔T42n1828 0311a05〕; beyond that, all the canon holds of him is one postscript.

那篇跋不是唐人寫的。落款「享保癸丑季夏中澣沙門性威敬誌」〔T42n1828 0868b04〕——享保癸丑是日本享保十八年，去唐已千年。跋者稱他「李唐遁倫大德，覃精瑜伽，撰此論記」〔T42n1828 0868a20〕，又記其書之境遇：「然斯書存世僅僅可數」〔T42n1828 0868a22〕，祕於名山古剎而罕傳，跋者懇求謄錄一本，久歷年所文字訛舛，後得慈心藏本三復校讎，乃圖印布。本編所讀之《瑜伽論記》，能到今日，其中一段路是這樣走的。

That postscript was not written by a man of the Tang. Its signature reads "respectfully recorded by the śramaṇa Xingwei, mid-decade of the last month of summer, the guichou year of Kyōhō" 〔T42n1828 0868b04〕 — Kyōhō guichou is the eighteenth year of Kyōhō in Japan, a thousand years after the Tang. The writer calls him "the great worthy Dunlun of the Li Tang, who searched the Yoga to its depths and composed this record" 〔T42n1828 0868a20〕, and sets down what had become of the book: "copies of this work surviving in the world can be counted on the fingers" 〔T42n1828 0868a22〕, hidden in famous mountains and old temples and seldom seen; he begged leave to copy one out, and after long years the text had grown corrupt, until he obtained the Cixin canon copy, collated it three times over, and had it printed. Part of the road by which the Record on the Yogācārabhūmi reached the present ran that way.

本編以其記為《瑜伽師地論》之注家一鏡，而於其人一概如實：藏中無傳，生卒不詳，師承不記；跋語為十八世紀刊行者之追述，誌其語而不以之定年，亦不以之為唐人同時之證。

This edition takes his Record as one of the commentarial mirrors on the Yogācārabhūmi, and of the man says only what is true: no life in the canon, dates unknown, teachers unrecorded. The postscript is an eighteenth-century printer's recollection; this edition records its words but does not date him by them, nor treat them as the testimony of a contemporary.