[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 44.33 # 佛祖統紀 44.33 佛祖統紀 44.33 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [44.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.44.33) 述曰。案歸田錄。大祖入寺問贊寧通慧。佛當拜否。答曰。見在佛不拜過去佛。寧於太宗朝隨吳越王初歸京師。未嘗及見太祖。歐陽氏所錄妄也。今觀真宗百拜已上。不欲分任近臣。蓋習熟於祖宗之家法也。其後如徽宗拜佛牙。南渡歷朝拜大士。則知有國以來無不拜佛之理。歐陽慢佛。不欲人主致敬故特創此說。見在過去無義之談。所以上誣君主下誣寧師也。甚矣。 > The commentary states: According to the Record of Returning to the Fields (Guitian lu), Emperor Taizu entered a monastery and asked Zanning Tonghui, "Should the Buddha be bowed to?" He replied, "A present Buddha does not bow to past Buddhas." But Zanning first returned to the capital along with the King of Wuyue during the reign of Emperor Taizong; he had never seen Taizu. What Ouyang \[Xiu\] recorded is false. Now observing that Emperor Zhenzong bowed more than a hundred times and did not wish to delegate this to his close ministers, it was because he was well practiced in the ancestral family precepts. Later, just as Emperor Huizong bowed to the Buddha's tooth and the emperors throughout the Southern Song bowed to the Great Being \[Guanyin\], we know that since the founding of the state there has never been any principle of not bowing to the Buddha. Ouyang disparaged the Buddha, and not wishing the ruler of men to show reverence, he fabricated this account. His nonsensical talk of "present and past" slandered the sovereign above and slandered Master Zanning below. How extreme! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 44.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.44.32) - [Next: 44.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.44.34) - [Up: 44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.44) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.44.33) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.44.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.44.33) · Pramāṇa