四明尊者教行錄 1.34

1.34

Third year [of Dazhong xiangfu], gengxu: In this year, respectfully complying with an imperial decree, the name plaque of Bao'en was changed to Yanqing Cloister. According to the Siming tujing: 'Bao'en Cloister was built in the second year of Guangshun of the [Later] Zhou; in the third year of Dazhong xiangfu of the August Dynasty, it was renamed Yanqing Cloister; in the fourteenth year of Shaoxing, the cloister was elevated to a monastery.' The official notice from the commissioner's office states: 'In the seventh month of the third year of Dazhong xiangfu, the resident monk (Zhili) submitted a petition through the commissioner's prefecture requesting to forward a memorial to the celestial hearing that it forever be made an abbotship of the ten directions, constantly expounding the doctrinal teachings of Tiantai. In the tenth month of that year, in accordance with a directive from the Central Secretariat, the imperial decree was received granting approval.'