勅修百丈清規 1.79

1.79

From Shizu downward, all have established monasteries, considering that the Buddha manifested response bodies to govern all under heaven, and once the forms of transformation ended, they returned to the station of Buddhahood. In official monasteries in the capital, sacred portraits were accordingly installed and Buddha altars provided, offering five sacrifices each month, setting out libations and conducting rituals as if they were living, thus expressing longing like that of seeing the ancestor in the soup and on the wall. We magnanimously contemplate that what the holy transformation has covered flows boundlessly together with the Buddha's teachings; and as we disciples bathe in the waves of imperial kindness and are moistened by holy grace, how could we not know its source and think of repaying it?