大乘起信論之略名。馬鳴菩薩作，有二譯：一梁真諦譯一卷，二唐實叉難陀譯二卷。為使起正信，說大乘之極理者。
Śraddhotpada Śāstra; it is one of the earliest remaining Mahāyāna texts and is attributed to Aśvaghoṣa; cf. 馬鳴; two tr. have been made, one by Paramārtha in A. D. 554, another by Śikṣānanda, circa 700; the first text is more generally accepted, as Chih-i, the founder of Tiantai, was Paramārtha's amanuensis, and 法藏 Fazang (643-712) made the standard commentary on it, the 起信論義記, though he had assisted Śikṣānanda in his translation. It gives the fundamental principles of Mahāyāna, and was tr. into English by Teitaro Suzuki (1900), also by T. Richard. There are several commentaries and treatises on it.
一起信論 全一卷。相傳為印度馬鳴菩薩所造，南朝梁代真諦（499～569）譯。（參閱「大乘起信論」1095）p5461