佛祖統紀 26.39

26.39

The Biographies of the Eighteen Worthies originally did not record the author's name; it is suspected to have emerged from Mount Lu in former times. During the Xining era, Chen Lingju (Shunyu), a Worthy and Excellent from Jiahe, roughly edited and corrected it. In the early Daguan era, the monk Huiwu, finding its accounts sparse and sketchy, supplemented it in detail. Now, having thoroughly consulted the Mountain Lu Collection, the Biographies of Eminent Monks, and the histories of the Jin and Song dynasties, I have supplemented and rectified it once more according to Wu's edition, without omitting a single matter. Henceforth, it may serve as the definitive edition.