佛祖統紀 36.60

36.60

二十年。荊州牧桓沖。命曇翼法師。渡江造東西二寺。自晉宋齊梁陳氏常及萬僧。隋初名僧三千五百。當途講說者五十三人。別院大小十所。般舟方等二院夏別千人。寺屋各及萬間○處士戴逵欲造丈六無量壽佛像。以古製朴拙。乃密采眾說。積思三年。刻雕方就。迎置山陰靈寶寺。郄超見而作禮。方撮香在手。忽勃然煙上極目雲表。眾皆歎其神感○罽賓國沙門僧伽跋澄來長安。譯雜毘曇婆沙論○龜茲國（音丘慈）沙門鳩摩羅什。至長安。秦主姚興。館于逍遙園譯大品般若經。

In the twentieth year, Huan Chong, the Governor of Jingzhou, ordered Dharma Master Tanyi to cross the river and build the Eastern and Western Monasteries. From the Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, down to the Chen dynasties, there were constantly up to ten thousand monks. At the beginning of the Sui, there were 3,500 famous monks, with fifty-three people lecturing on the Dharma at the same time. There were ten larger and smaller cloisters; the Pratyutpanna and Samantabhadra Cloisters each accommodated a thousand monks for the summer retreat. The monastery buildings each reached ten thousand bays. The retired scholar Dai Kui wished to make a sixteen-foot image of Amitāyus. Considering the ancient style to be clumsy, he secretly gathered opinions from various people, pondering them for three years, and only then completed the carving. It was welcomed and enshrined at Lingbao Monastery in Shan'yin. When Xi Chao saw it and bowed, just as he gathered incense in his hand, sudden clouds of smoke rose straight up beyond the eye to the clouds, and all marveled at this divine response. The śramaṇa Saṅghabhadra from the state of Kaśmīra came to Chang'an and translated the Za apitan bapo sha lun (Saṃyuktābhidharma-vibhāṣā-śāstra). The śramaṇa Kumārajīva from Kucha came to Chang'an. Yao Xing, the Qin ruler, lodged him in the Xiaoyao Garden, where he translated the Da pin bore jing (Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra).