四明尊者教行錄 1.35

1.35

Fourth year, xinhai: In this year, the Master submitted another petition via the prefecture requesting to be issued an official commissioner's notice fully recording the above-mentioned items and the imperial decree to be engraved on stone forever as verifiable proof. The official notice states: 'Subsequently, in the third month of the fourth year of Dazhong xiangfu, (Zhili) submitted a petition via the prefecture requesting to copy in full the imperial decree and the earlier and later official notices and engrave them upon a stone inscription, that it forever remain an abbotship for the transmission of the teaching from the ten directions. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month of this year, the notice was issued and the stone was erected.'