After Buddhism was introduced to China, translation of Buddhism scripture and literature began and steadily increased in volume with different versions of renderings. To account for both existent and lost texts, as well as to check similarities and differences among texts, catalogues were compiled, so that Buddhist books got authoritative listings. In the Jin dynasty the Nie Dao Zhen Catalogue preserved part of the titles of the Chinese translations of Buddhist scripture of the Western Jin dynasty; however, that catalogue was lost and is seldom known. The earliest catalogue of translated scripture now existent in its entirety is the "Chu San Zang Ji Ji" (A Compilation of Tripitaka Titles) made by Sheng You of the Liang dynasty around the years 510-514. But even this catalogue does not explicitly include the above Nie Catalogue. Later in the "Li Dai San Bo Ji" (A Historical Record of Triple Gems) written by Bei Zhang Fang of the Sui dynasty (597), scattered mentioning of the Nie Catalogue can be found. This paper attempts to comb the Historical Record of Triple Gems for entries relating to the Nie Catalogue, with particularly reference to and research into A Compilation of Tripitaka Titles and later works such as "Da Tang Nei Dian Lu" (A Compilation of Tang Internal Scripture), "Kai Yuan Shi Jiao Lu" (Kai Yuan Catalogue of Tang Internal Scriptures) and "Zhen Yuan Xin Ding Shi Jiao Mu Lu" (Revised Zhen Yuan Catalogue of Buddhist Literature), and by Chu Fa Hu Catalogue and the Nie Dao Zhen Catalogue, as well as ascertaining the correct timeframe in which the scripture was translated by Nie Dao Zhen, and other issues pertaining to the preservation and loss of translated scripture, thereby to fill a gap in the academic study of Buddhist literature in the Western Jin dynasty.
