佛祖統紀 35.7

English (machine translation) 35.7

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35.7

In the fourth year, General of Agile Cavalry Huo Qubing campaigned against the Xiongnu and passed more than a thousand li beyond Mount Yanqi, capturing the golden statue used by King Xiutu to sacrifice to Heaven (Xiutu was a noble king among the Xiongnu tribes). ○ Huo Qubing captured a golden statue over ten feet tall. The Emperor considered it a great spirit and displayed it in the Ganquan Palace, burning incense and revering it (Weishu, Treatise on Buddhism and Daoism).

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佛祖統紀 — 志磐, Classical Chinese