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佛祖統紀 40.33

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40.33

In the twenty-fourth year, an imperial edict promulgated the Imperially Annotated Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra throughout the empire. / The Secretariat memorialized requesting that monks and nuns throughout the empire be placed under the Court of State Ceremonial. / Wu Daoxuan, courtesy name Daozi, achieved consummate mastery in painting, generally taking Zhang Sengyou as his model. The Emperor summoned him into court service. At Jinggong Monastery, he painted the transformation tableau of Hell. When the people of the capital viewed it, they were all terrified of sin and cultivated goodness; the butchers and wine-sellers in the two markets could find no buyers (in the present age there is a stone-carved Daozi Guanyin).

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