佛祖統紀 40.24

40.24

In the fourteenth year, the Japanese monks Yōrei and Fushō arrived in Yangzhou. Following their king's order, they presented ten saṃghāṭī robes to Chinese Vinaya masters of high conduct. Jianzhen accepted the robes, and, deeply moved that foreign lands possessed the seed of Buddhahood, boarded a ship with Rei and the others to head east. Once he arrived, the king welcomed and comforted him, housed him in the Vairocana Hall, and requested him to transmit the refuges and precepts. The queen and ministers received them in succession. The transmission of the Vinaya in Japan began from this.