佛祖統紀 37.41

37.41

In the first year of the Dabao era, on the eighth day of the fourth month, an imperial decree ordered the ordination of people as monks. He personally composed a vow: 'Your disciple Xiao Gang, by the merit of establishing this vegetarian feast and ordaining people, universally delivers the six destinies and four forms of birth, freeing them from desire, eradicating ignorance forever, and cultivating prajñā to become true children of the Buddha.'