佛祖統紀 14.47
English (machine translation) 14.47
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14.47
The narrator says: Master Fang, in his Bianzu (Distinguishing the Patriarchs), stated that when Zhiju composed the Baolin zhuan, it contained a hundred kinds of deceitful claims, such as Bodhidharma returning to the west with a single shoe, or standing in the snow and cutting off an arm, matters that are largely at variance with the Xu Gaoseng zhuan of Nanshan, and so forth. Furthermore, people in the world say that while the Platform Sūtra speaks of nature no differently from our school, it disparages and rejects chanting the Buddha's name to seek rebirth in the Western Pure Land. That Ŭich'ŏn said the Liao state burned and discarded the two books was presumably for these reasons.
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