佛祖統紀 47.11

47.11

三年二月。廬山道法師申剳都省稱。崇觀之後（崇寧大觀）道士叨冐資品。林靈素王沖道輩。視兩府者甚眾。遂令道士冐居僧上。靖康建炎道士視官已行追毀。而國忌行香寺院會聚。猶敢傲然居上。其蔑視國法有若此者。今欲復還祖宗舊制。僧史略具載。每當朝集僧先道後。並立殿廷僧東道西。凡遇郊天道左僧右。尋送禮部取到太常寺狀稱因革禮。乾德元年宣德門肆赦故事。道左僧右。又檢照嘉祐編勅并紹興新書。並以僧道立文為次。其政和條內道僧觀僧及道士。位在僧上。並已刪去不行。尋蒙朝旨依條改正。以僧居上。十一月太常寺遍符諸路。應行香立班。諸處聚會。並依祖宗成法。以僧居左（此依準開寶五年詔旨也）○八月自治平末始鬻度牒。舊以黃紙印。造偽為者多。戶部朱異始奏。令僧道用勅綾牒。

In the second month of the third year, Master Dao of Mount Lu submitted a memorandum to the Department of Ministries, stating: "After the Chongning and Daguan eras, Daoist priests usurped honorary ranks and offices. Those like Lin Lingsu and Wang Chongdao who were treated as equivalent to the Two Grand Councils were very numerous. Consequently, Daoist priests were made to improperly sit above Buddhist monks. During the Jingkang and Jianyan eras, the official ranks treated as equivalent for Daoist priests were already rescinded, yet when assembling at monasteries for state memorial services with incense offering, they still dare arrogantly to take the superior seats. Their disregard for state law is like this! We now wish to restore the ancestral old regulations. The Short History of the Buddhist Monastic Order records in detail that whenever there was a court assembly, monks came first and Daoists after; when standing together in the palace courtyard, monks were on the east and Daoists on the west; and whenever Heaven was sacrificed to in the suburbs, Daoists were on the left and monks on the right." Soon after, it was sent to the Ministry of Rites, which obtained a report from the Court of Imperial Sacrifices stating: "Regarding the changing of rituals, the precedent of the general amnesty at Xuande Gate in the first year of Qiande had Daoists on the left and monks on the right. Furthermore, checking the Compiled Edicts of Jiayou and the New Book of Shaoxing, the texts consistently place monks before Daoists in sequence. In the Zhenghe regulations, the provisions that 'Daoist, Buddhist monk, Daoist abbey, Buddhist monastery' and that Daoists 'rank above monks' have already all been deleted and discontinued." Soon an imperial decree was received to correct it according to the regulations, placing monks above. In the eleventh month, the Court of Imperial Sacrifices issued a circular order to all circuits: whenever offering incense and lining up, or gathering in various places, all must follow the ancestral established regulations, placing monks on the left (this conformed to the imperial edict of the fifth year of Kaibao). In the eighth month, [it was noted that] ordained status certificates had first begun to be sold toward the end of the Zhiping era; formerly they were printed on yellow paper, and many were counterfeited. Zhu Yi of the Ministry of Revenue first memorialized to order that monks and Daoists use imperial silk certificates.