青目

藏中無青目本傳。其人之名、之國、之筆，唯見於僧叡〈中論序〉一處：「今所出者，是天竺梵志名賓伽羅、秦言青目之所釋也」〔T30n1564 0001a26〕。青目是漢語譯名，梵音作賓伽羅；本編二名並存，正文用青目，別名收賓伽羅。品端題署與此序相合：「龍樹菩薩造梵志青目釋」〔T30n1564 0001b12〕。

The canon contains no biography of Qingmu. His name, his country, and his hand appear in one place only, in Sengrui's preface to the Middle Treatise: "What is here brought forth is the explanation of an Indian brahmin named Piṅgala, in Qin speech 'Blue Eyes'" 〔T30n1564 0001a27〕. Qingmu is the Chinese rendering, Piṅgala the Sanskrit sound; this edition keeps both, using Qingmu in the text and recording Piṅgala as the alternate. The chapter heading agrees with the preface: "composed by the bodhisattva Nāgārjuna, explained by the brahmin Qingmu" 〔T30n1564 0001b12〕.

同一序中，僧叡對其釋文有一句不客氣的評語，本編照錄不諱：「其人雖信解深法而辭不雅中」〔T30n1564 0001a28〕；「其中乖闕煩重者法師皆裁而裨之」〔T30n1564 0001a28〕——羅什於乖闕煩重之處有所裁補。這一句於本編《中論》一帙關係甚大：讀者手上的漢文《中論》長行，是青目之釋而經羅什裁裨者，非青目原貌之全。本編凡引長行皆守今本字面，不代為復原，亦不因此貶其釋。

In the same preface Sengrui passes an unflattering judgment on the explanation, which this edition records without softening: "Though the man understood the deep Dharma in faith, his wording was not elegantly apt" 〔T30n1564 0001a28〕; "where it was defective or redundant the Master pruned and supplemented throughout" 〔T30n1564 0001a28〕 — Kumārajīva cut and filled where he found it wanting. That sentence bears heavily on the Middle Treatise in this edition: the Chinese prose commentary the reader has in hand is Qingmu's explanation as pruned and supplemented by Kumārajīva, not Qingmu entire. This edition keeps to the wording of the received text wherever the prose is cited, neither restoring an original on his behalf nor disparaging his explanation on that account.

生卒之年、師承、行事，漢傳一無所記。此處如實標不詳，不代為補；本欄所標世紀但為排序之權。

Of his dates, his teachers, and his acts the Chinese record says nothing at all. This edition marks them honestly as unknown rather than supplying them; the century in this entry serves ordering only.