順曉闍梨付法文
The Dharma Transmission Document from the Ācārya Shunxiao
(JPN: Jungyō Ajari Fuhōmon)
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Translated into English by Rev. Jikai 慈海 Tyler Dehn デイーン
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| During the Kaiyuan period (713 – 741 A.D.) of the Great Tang [Dynasty] there was a Mahātripiṭakācārya (i.e. Great Tripiṭaka Master) who had been a prince of the Land of Bhāraṭa (i.e. India), and had the Dharma-name Śubhakarasiṃha (637 – 737 A.D.). He transmitted the Great Wheel [of the Dharma] from the Great Nālandā Temple in the Buddha’s Homeland, to the Land of the Great Tang, where he bestowed the transmission upon his disciple, the monk Yilin, who was himself a National Preceptor and a Mahācārya (i.e. Great Ācārya). At one hundred and three years of age, [Master Yilin] now resides in the Kingdom of Silla (i.e. Korea), [but he] transmitted the Dharma by turning the Great Dharma Wheel, and bestowing it upon his Great Tang (i.e. Chinese) disciple, the monk Shunxiao. This [Shunxiao] is a Bhadanta (i.e. virtuous) Ācārya of the Practise-space (dōjō) [designated for the] Safe-guarding of the Nation. He subsequently bestowed upon his disciple from the Eastern Land (i.e. Japan), the monk Saichō, the turning of the Great Dharma Wheel. This monk Saichō, is the fourth person to be bestowed with transmission [of this Dharma-lineage]. Recorded on the nineteenth day of the fourth month, of the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan (805 A.D.) . May the Buddha-Dharma remain forever and ever! A record of the transmission from the Ācārya, Śramaṇa Shunxiao, to Saichō. | 大唐國開元朝大三藏。婆羅國王子。法號善無畏。從佛國大那蘭陀寺傳大輪。至大唐國。轉付囑傳法弟子僧義林。亦是國師大阿闍梨。一百三歳。今在新羅國。傳法轉大法輪。又付大唐弟子僧順曉。是鎭國道場大徳阿闍梨。又付東國弟子僧最澄。轉大法輪。僧最澄是第四付囑傳授。唐貞元二十一年（ 805）四月十九日書記。令佛法永 永不絶。阿闍梨沙門順曉録付最澄。 | 大唐國開元朝，大三藏，婆羅國王子，法號善無畏。 從佛國大那蘭陀寺傳大輪，至大唐國，轉付囑傳法，弟子僧義林，亦是國師、大阿闍梨。 一百三歳，今在新羅國。傳法轉大法輪，又付大唐弟子，僧順曉。是鎭國道場大徳，阿闍梨。 又付東國弟子，僧最澄，轉大法輪。僧最澄是第四付囑傳授。 唐貞元二十一年 (805 A.D.)，四月十九日書記。 令佛法永永不絶! 阿闍梨沙門順曉録付最澄。 |
右一章血脈譜所録 （『顯戒論縁起』にもあり。別に順曉印信あり）。