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Emperor Wu, Xiao Yan, ascended the imperial throne at the age of thirty-seven, reigned for forty-nine years, and \[lived to\] the age of eighty-six. Because the shade of his family courtyard had fallen early, the Emperor constantly harboured sorrow and grief, often lamenting: 'Although I possess the dignity over the four seas, I have no way to express my boundless \[filial love\].' Therefore he devoted his mind to Buddhist scriptures. Considering that the Prajñāpāramitā in eight sections is the mother of the Buddhas of the ten directions and the three times, capable of eliminating calamities and hindrances and washing away afflictions and toil, he selected from among the various sūtras to exhaustively compose annotations and commentaries. He also lectured and recited them in person, hoping that by relying on this superior merit he might be able to display his longing, and repeatedly offered himself to the saṅgha in their stead. Every time he offered his body, the earth shook for it. Successive fasts and lectures turned the wheel of the Dharma without interruption. He founded Aijing Monastery on Mount Zhong, Zhidu Monastery on the Qingxi River, established the Zhijing Hall within the palace terrace, and erected the seven ancestral shrines at Jingyang Terrace. Twice a month he set forth pure feasts. Whenever it came to making prostrations and offering the ancestral seasonal sacrifices, he never failed to shed copious tears in sorrowful emotion, so that among his attendants who joined him none did not cover their tears. In the eighth year of Putong, the construction of Tongtai Monastery was completed. Its towers, pavilions, halls, terraces, chambers, and corridors were richly decorated, and its nine-tiered \[pagoda\] towered into the clouds, majestic and magnificent, \[like\] the Yongning \[Monastery\] of the Wei. He opened the Datong Gate opposite Tongtai Monastery, and accordingly adopted 'Datong' as the reign title. On the sixth day of the third month of its first year, His Majesty in person visited the monastery to perform prostrations and repentance. Although the affairs of the millions of people were burdensome, the scrolls never left his hands. He perused internal \[Buddhist\] and external \[secular\] sūtras, treatises, canons, and classics, constantly working from night until dawn. From the Book of Rites, Old Text Book of Zhou, Zuo Tradition, Laozi, Zhuangzi, the various philosophers, the Analects, to the Classic of Filial Piety—whatever past sages had left unexplained and former scholars had been hindered by, he fully glossed and explained. The students of the Imperial Academy were limited in number and moreover separated by noble and base rank; the Emperor always wished to recruit junior scholars and provide these skillful inducements, so he established Erudites for the Five Institutes separately to attract impoverished talents, causing the two schools of Confucius and the Buddha to flourish luxuriantly. He produced successive collections of one hundred and twenty fascicles, and composed several thousand fascicles including the Comprehensive History and Grove of Calligraphy. Although advanced in years, he ceaselessly strengthened himself, seeking his robes before dawn and sitting waiting for daybreak. At the fifth watch he would come out to the outer hall, holding a candle to examine the myriad affairs of state. He extended grace to the prisons and marketplaces, showing great magnanimity and pardon. If there were those deserving execution under heavy laws who could not be pardoned, his countenance would change for a long time, and he would burn incense and recite the Buddha's name before issuing the decree; so great was his compassion and pity for the common folk. In investigating villainy and rooting out wrongdoing, he was as if spiritually prescient. Except for banquets, he did not listen to music. The consorts and concubines of the rear palace wore no silk gauze or brocade. His bedclothes in the small bedchamber of the inner palace were purely plain, with cloth quilts, rush mats, straw sandals, and pueraria headcloths, having no other fine attire or ornaments. In the Tianjian era he completely severed bloody flavors, eating only one meal a day consisting solely of vegetables. When Shu presented konjac and he found it delicious upon eating, he remarked: 'How does it differ from meat?' and decreed that it too be forbidden. 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