翻刻
陵遅栖慮玄門慨深文之
訛謬思欲分條析理広彼
前聞截偽続真開茲後
学是以翹心淨土往遊西
域乗危遠邁杖策孤征積
雪晨飛途閒失地驚砂夕
起空外迷天万里山川撥
煙霞而進影百重寒暑
現代語訳
（正法が）衰え行くことを憂い、玄門（仏道の奥深い教え）に心を寄せ、深遠な文（経典）が訛り謬（あやま）られていることを慨嘆し、条（筋道）を分かち理（ことわり）を析（わか）ち、かの前聞（先人たちが伝えた教え）を広め、偽りを断ち切って真実を繋ぎ、この後学（後に学ぶ者たち）のために道を開かんと思い願った。かくして、浄土（天竺・インド）へと心を翹（あ）げ、西域へと遊学の旅に出た。危険を冒し遠く赴き、杖を策（つ）きて孤独に征（ゆ）き、積雪の中を夜明けに飛ぶように進み、道の途中では地が失われるほどの（砂漠の）脅威に遭い、驚くべき砂嵐が夕べに起こり、空の果ての彼方では天すら迷うほどの（広大な）景色の中、万里にわたる山河を越え、煙霞（もやとかすみ）を払いながら影（旅影）を進め、幾重にも重なる寒暑（の移り変わり）を経て……
英語訳
...grieving at the (Dharma's) decline, he devoted his mind to the profound gate of Buddhist teaching, lamenting the errors and distortions that had crept into the deep scriptures. He wished to separate the branches and analyze the principles, to spread widely the teachings transmitted by his predecessors, to cut away the false and continue the true, and to open the path for those who would study after him. Thus, he lifted his heart toward the Pure Land (of India), and set forth on a journey to the Western Regions. Braving dangers, he traveled far; staff in hand, he marched on alone. Through accumulated snows he flew forward at dawn; along the way, treacherous terrain threatened to swallow the road beneath him; startling sandstorms rose at dusk; beyond the vault of the sky, even heaven seemed lost in the boundless expanse. Crossing mountains and rivers spanning ten thousand li, he pressed onward through mists and haze, his solitary figure advancing through layer upon layer of cold and heat...