佛祖統紀 54.40

54.40

周世宗顯德七年。勅民間銅像輸官鑄錢。廢寺院三千三百所。不許私度僧尼。有武將周百勝。入冥見世宗臥鐵床受罪。本朝太祖。大復佛法。

In the seventh year of the Xiande era of Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou, an edict ordered that privately held bronze statues among the common people be turned over to the government to cast coins, abolished three thousand three hundred monasteries, and forbade the private ordination of monks and nuns. There was a military commander named Zhou Baisheng who entered the netherworld and saw Shizong lying on an iron bed enduring torment. Taizu of our dynasty greatly restored the Buddhadharma.