慧遠

「釋慧遠姓李氏。燉煌人也。後居上黨之高都焉。」〔T50n2060 0489c26〕——此慧遠是淨影寺慧遠，與東晉廬山慧遠非一人；本系列《瑜伽師地論》遁倫記所引「遠公」「舊遠師」即指此人，本編於此二名之辨，逐處誌明不併。「十三辭叔。往澤州東山古賢谷寺。」〔T50n2060 0490a02〕華陰沙門僧思禪師見而度之；十六隨湛律師往鄴，大小經論普皆博涉；年滿進具，以上統法上為和上，光師十大弟子並為證戒。而其學之所歸在最後一句：「末專師上統。綿篤七年。」〔T50n2060 0490a17〕遍學而後專一，七年不移。

"Huiyuan was of the surname Li, a man of Dunhuang, who afterwards dwelt at Gaodu in Shangdang" 〔T50n2060 0489c26〕 — this is Huiyuan of Jingying monastery, not Huiyuan of Mount Lu under the Eastern Jin; where Dunlun's Record on the Yogācārabhūmi in this corpus cites "Master Yuan" and "the old Master Yuan" it means this man, and this edition notes the distinction wherever the two names meet, never merging them. "At thirteen he took leave of his uncle and went to Guxian Valley monastery on the eastern hills of Zezhou" 〔T50n2060 0490a02〕, where the Chan master Sengsi of Huayin saw him and ordained him; at sixteen he went with the Vinaya master Zhan to Ye and ranged widely over the sūtras and treatises of both vehicles; at full age he took the complete precepts under the saṃgha-controller Shang, with the ten great disciples of Master Guang as witnesses. Where his learning came to rest is in the last line: "in the end he took the saṃgha-controller Shang as his sole master, keeping to him unbroken for seven years" 〔T50n2060 0490a17〕. Wide learning first, then one master, seven years without moving.

「所以名馳帝闕。皇上聞焉。」〔T50n2060 0491a08〕下勅授洛州沙門都。開皇五年澤州刺史請赴本鄉；七年璽書殷勤重請，辭又不免，乃達西京——其時勅召大德六人，他居其一。上大悅勅住興善，「因置寺焉。名為淨影。常居講說。」〔T50n2060 0491a26〕本編所讀之《無量壽經義疏》〔T37n1745〕，即出於這座為他而置的寺。

"Thus his name ran to the palace gates, and the sovereign heard of him" 〔T50n2060 0491a08〕, and an edict made him saṃgha-controller of Luozhou. In the fifth year of Kaihuang the prefect of Zezhou invited him to his native district; in the seventh a sealed letter pressed the invitation again and he could not decline, and so came to the western capital — where six great worthies were summoned by edict, and he was one. The sovereign, greatly pleased, ordered him to reside at Xingshan, and "a monastery was accordingly established there, named Jingying, where he constantly resided and lectured" 〔T50n2060 0491a26〕. The Commentary on the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha 〔T37n1745〕 that this edition reads came out of the monastery built for him.

「開皇十二年春。下勅令知翻譯。刊定辭義。」〔T50n2060 0491b06〕而同年即終：「其年卒於靜影寺。春秋七十矣。」〔T50n2060 0491b07〕開皇十二年＝592，生年 523 由此逆推。傳目作「淨影寺」而本傳作「靜影寺」，藏本二形並見，本編照錄不併——一字之異亦是底本之實。

"In the spring of the twelfth year of Kaihuang an edict came down putting him in charge of translation, to settle and fix wording and sense" 〔T50n2060 0491b06〕 — and he died that same year: "in that year he died at Jingying monastery, in his seventieth year" 〔T50n2060 0491b07〕. Kaihuang 12 is 592, and the birth year 523 is reckoned back from it. The table of contents writes the monastery's name one way and the life another; both forms stand in the canon and this edition reproduces both without merging them — a difference of one character is also a fact of the base text.