四明尊者教行錄 1.37

1.37

Sixth year, guichou: On the fifteenth day of the second month of this year, the Society for Reciting the Buddha's Name and Bestowing Precepts was established for the first time. The Master personally composed an exhortation text in the tenth month of the fifth year of Xiangfu, which has guided and transformed people up to the present day. This assembly has continued uninterrupted for a total of one hundred and ninety years down to the present; how many persons have received its transformative influence from past to present cannot be known!