國清百錄 3.66

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右庶子張衡宣令。慧日道場僧慧莊、法論二師，於東宮講《淨名經》，全用智者疏判釋經文。一日兩時躬親臨聽，令楊州總管府遣參軍張諧到天台，有諳委智者法華義者一人，仍齎疏入京使到寺。寺差灌頂隨使應令，疏到付司繕寫，寫竟付灌頂校勘，勘訖入宮受持。右庶子張衡宣令。引灌頂入辭面奉。仁壽二年八月十八日令旨云：弟子重先師法門，故相勞苦。師亦須為法，勿以為辭。今遣大都督段智興送師還寺，為和南大眾好依先師法用行道，勿損風望也。好去，并有布施。飛龍綾法衣三百二十領，猫牛酥兩瓶，光明鹽一斛。右庶子張衡宣令。別賜灌頂物。金縷成彌勒像，并夾侍菩薩。聖僧周匝，五十三佛織成經壇七張。織成經袋二口。熏陸香一百斤，酥合和香一斤。又令書一函與眾。又遣楊州司功參軍蔡恪到，為智者設千僧齋。

The Right Mentor of the Crown Prince Zhang Heng proclaimed the edict: The two masters, the monks Huizhuang and Falun of the Huiri Bodhimaṇḍa, were lecturing on the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra in the Eastern Palace, entirely relying on Zhizhe's commentary to analyze and explain the scripture. Twice a day [the Crown Prince] personally attended and listened. He ordered the Yangzhou Area Command to dispatch the Adjutant Zhang Xie to Tiantai [to summon] one person thoroughly versed in Zhizhe's teaching on the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra, who was to bring the commentary and enter the capital upon the envoy's arrival at the monastery. The monastery designated Guanding to accompany the envoy in compliance with the command. When the commentary arrived, it was handed over to the bureau for copying; once the copying was completed, it was given to Guanding for collation; and having been collated, it entered the palace to be received and upheld. The Right Mentor Zhang Heng proclaimed the edict, introducing Guanding to enter, take leave, and be received in audience. On the eighteenth day of the eighth month of the second year of Renshou, the edict stated: 'I, your disciple, esteem the Dharma teachings of the late Master, and therefore have troubled you with this toil. You too, Master, must act for the sake of the Dharma and not decline. Now I dispatch the Commander-in-Chief Duan Zhixing to escort you back to the monastery. Please pay my respects to the assembly; may they properly practice the Path in reliance upon the late Master's methods, and not diminish his reputation. Farewell, and here are offerings: three hundred and twenty sets of Dharma robes of flying-dragon damask, two bottles of butter from ox-ghee and cat-ghee, and one picul of Guangming salt.' The Right Mentor Zhang Heng proclaimed the edict, separately bestowing items upon Guanding: an image of Maitreya made of gold thread together with flanking attendant bodhisattvas, surrounded by holy monks, seven woven altar-cloths of the fifty-three Buddhas, two woven scripture bags, one hundred catties of frankincense, and one catty of mixed storax incense. Furthermore, a letter was ordered to be sent in a case to the assembly, and the Yangzhou Administrative Adjutant Cai Ke was dispatched to arrive and hold a vegetarian feast for one thousand monks for the sake of Zhizhe.