佛祖統紀 38.48

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四年。宋雲等使西竺諸國還。得佛經一百七十部○帝加元服。命沙門道士講道禁中。帝曰。佛與老子同時否。道士姜斌曰。開天經云。老子定王三年生。年八十五西入化胡。以佛為侍者。沙門曇謨最曰。吾佛以昭王二十六年生。穆王五十二年滅。自滅後至定王三年。凡三百四十五年老子方生。而言化胡。無乃謬甚。帝令群臣詳定真偽太尉蕭綜等劾奏。開天偽經。罪當惑眾。詔流斌于馬邑。

In the fourth year, Song Yun and the others returned from their mission to the kingdoms of Western India, obtaining one hundred and seventy Buddhist scriptures. The emperor held his capping ceremony and ordered monks and Daoist masters to discourse on doctrine within the inner palace. The emperor asked, 'Were the Buddha and Laozi contemporaneous or not?' The Daoist master Jiang Bin said, 'The Scripture of Opening Heaven states: Laozi was born in the third year of King Ding; at the age of eighty-five, he went west to convert the barbarians, taking the Buddha as his attendant.' The monk Tanmozui said, 'Our Buddha was born in the twenty-sixth year of King Zhao and entered extinction in the fifty-second year of King Mu. From his extinction until the third year of King Ding, it was three hundred and forty-five years before Laozi was born. To claim that he converted the barbarians—is that not an utter absurdity?' The emperor ordered the ministers to deliberate and determine the true and false. The Grand Defender Xiao Zong and others impeached Jiang Bin, submitting that the Scripture of Opening Heaven was an apocryphon, and his crime was deceiving the masses. An edict exiled Bin to Mayi.