窺基

「釋窺基，字洪道，姓尉遲氏，京兆長安人也」〔T50n2061 0725b18〕。考諱宗，唐左金吾將軍；鄂國公德，其諸父也——出身將門，而入法之由不在門第：「及乎入法，奉勅為奘師弟子，始住廣福寺」〔T50n2061 0725c10〕，尋奉別勅選入大慈恩寺，「躬事奘師，學五竺語，解紛開結，統綜條然」〔T50n2061 0725c12〕。「年二十五，應詔譯經，講通大小乘教三十餘本」〔T50n2061 0725c14〕。

"Kuiji, styled Hongdao, was of the surname Yuchi, a man of Chang'an in the capital region" 〔T50n2061 0725b18〕. His father, named Zong, was a general of the Left Golden-Bird Guard; Lord E of Yuchi stood among his father's brothers — a military house, though it was not lineage that brought him into the Dharma: "when he entered the Dharma he was made, by imperial edict, a disciple of the master Xuanzang, and first resided at Guangfu monastery" 〔T50n2061 0725c10〕, and a further edict soon selected him for Great Ci'en monastery, where "he served Xuanzang in person and learned the language of the five regions of India, untangling knots and ordering the whole clearly" 〔T50n2061 0725c12〕. "At twenty-five he answered the imperial summons to translate scriptures, and lectured through more than thirty works of the Great and Small Vehicles" 〔T50n2061 0725c14〕.

本編所據之《成唯識論》，其譯場之形出於一次改制。本傳記奘所譯《唯識論》「初與昉、尚、光四人同受，潤色、執筆、撿文、纂義」〔T50n2061 0725c17〕——四人分工；其後「奘遂許之。以理遣三賢，獨委於基，此乃量材授任也」〔T50n2061 0725c22〕。十家之釋糅為一部，繫於一人之手，本編所讀之《成唯識論》即此一裁之果；而其《述記》所以為本編唯識首鏡，亦在此。他所註之書入本編者九部，自《法華玄贊》《心經幽贊》《說無垢稱經疏》以至《辯中邊論述記》《大乘法苑義林章》——「號百部論主」〔T49n2035 0369b17〕之稱，不是虛譽。

The bureau that produced the Treatise on Consciousness-only, which this edition works from, took its shape from a change of arrangement. The biography records that for the treatise Xuanzang translated he "at first received it together with Fang, Shang and Guang, the four of them polishing, holding the brush, checking the text and compiling the sense" 〔T50n2061 0725c17〕 — four men and four tasks; and then "Xuanzang consented: on the reasoning given he released the three worthies and entrusted the work to Ji alone — an appointment measured to the man" 〔T50n2061 0725c22〕. Ten masters' expositions were blended into one treatise under one hand, and the Cheng weishi lun this edition reads is the fruit of that ruling; so too is the standing of his述記 as this edition's first Yogācāra mirror. Nine of his commentaries enter this edition, from the Lotus and the Heart Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti through to the Madhyāntavibhāga and the Essay on the Forest of Meanings — "known as the Master of a Hundred Treatises" 〔T49n2035 0369b17〕 was no empty compliment.

永淳元年壬午十一月十三日長往于慈恩寺翻經院，「春秋五十一」〔T50n2061 0726b03〕；生年 632 由此逆推，非傳文直書之年。同傳復記「法臘無聞」〔T50n2061 0726b03〕——戒臘之數傳既不聞，本編照留不補。葬于樊村北渠，「祔三藏奘師塋隴焉」〔T50n2061 0726b04〕：本籍中師弟二人相鄰之實據，在此一句。

On the thirteenth day of the eleventh month of the first year of Yongchun he passed away in the translation cloister of Ci'en monastery, "in his fifty-first year" 〔T50n2061 0726b03〕; the birth year 632 is reckoned back from that and is not a figure the life states outright. The same life adds that "his ordination-years went unheard of" 〔T50n2061 0726b03〕 — the count of his years in robes the biography does not have, and this edition leaves the gap where it found it. He was buried at the north channel of Fan village, "laid beside the grave-mound of the Tripiṭaka master Xuanzang" 〔T50n2061 0726b04〕: the evidence for the two men standing next to each other in this registry is that one line.