佛祖統紀 38.63

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興和四年。時魏境有寺三萬所僧尼二百萬人。○魏書佛老志云。生生之類。三世神識常不滅。凡為善惡必有報應。漸積勝業陶冶粗鄙（粗倉胡反不精）經無數形澡鍊神明。乃至無生而得佛道。其始修心則依佛法僧。謂之三歸。若君子之三畏也（語君子有三畏。畏天命畏大人畏聖人之言）又有五戒。去殺盜婬妄言飲酒。大意與仁義禮智信同。又說六道受生六度進行。及佛身真應不生不滅。舍利塔廟。教法流廣之義。最為深密（北齊魏收撰北魏書）。

In the fourth year of Xinghe, there were thirty thousand monasteries and two million monks and nuns within the territory of Wei. ○ The 'Treatise on Buddhism and Daoism' in the Book of Wei says: 'Among all kinds of sentient beings, the conscious spirit throughout the three periods of time is constant and never perishes. Whosoever commits good or evil will certainly experience retribution. Gradually accumulating superior karma, they refine away what is coarse and base (coarse: pronounced like cang-hu, meaning unrefined), passing through countless bodily forms to cleanse and temper the divine radiance, until they attain the unproduced and achieve the Buddha's Path. At the beginning of cultivating the mind, they rely upon the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha; these are called the Three Refuges, just as the gentleman has three awes (the Analects says: "The gentleman has three awes: he awes the mandate of Heaven, he awes great men, and he awes the words of sages"). There are also five precepts: abandoning killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and drinking liquor. Their broad purport is the same as humaneness, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness. It also expounds rebirth in the six destinies, the progressive practice of the six perfections, the true and responsive bodies of the Buddha which are unproduced and unextinguished, the stūpas and temples for relics, and the vast circulation of the teachings—the meanings of which are the most profound and esoteric.' (Compiled by Wei Shou of Northern Qi in the Book of Northern Wei).