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佛祖統紀 40.11

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40.11

In the second year [711], Bodhiruci was decreed, together with Fazang, Chenwai, and others, to translate the *Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra* in the Sweet Dew Pavilion in the Northern Park. Prime Minister Zhang Yue, Right Vice-Director Lu Zangyong, Erudite He Zhizhang, Vice-Director of the Secretariat Lu Xiangxian, Minister Guo Yuanzhen, and Director of the Chancellery Wei Zhigu polished the text and supervised the translation.
An imperial decree permitted the households of noble consorts and princesses to begin establishing chapels of merit and virtue.
Lord Fayun, Wanhui, passed away while seated; he was posthumously granted the titles of Minister of Works and Duke of Guo State, and by imperial decree was buried at Xiangji Monastery in the Western Capital. During the reign of Zetian, Wanhui had been invited into the inner palace, granted brocade robes, and palace ladies were ordered to attend upon him. When Crown Prince Zhuanghui was born, Zetian held him up to show him. Wanhui said: 'This is a spirit of a tree from the Western Regions; rearing him will be favorable to his brothers.' Princess Anle, relying on Empress Wei, plotted treason; when Wanhui encountered her on the road, he looked toward her dust, spat, and said: 'Such foul stench must not be approached!' Later, Anle was indeed executed. When Xuanzong was still in his princedom, he visited him; Wanhui patted his back and said: 'Son of Heaven of fifty years of Great Peace!' Whenever Ruizong went out while serving as the Prince of Xiang, Wanhui told the people in the market: 'The Son of Heaven is coming!'

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