佛祖統紀 41.50

41.50

The Narrator says: Tuizhi's three letters to Dadian are completely preserved in his collected works. Since Tuizhi's meeting with Dadian was indeed an actual fact, correspondence between them ought not to be lacking. In writing freely at a particular moment, how could every single phrase be exquisite? To call them fabricated is, I fear, an overstated argument. As for the wording of the *Alternative Biography*, it is truly crude and vulgar, and indeed could not escape Dongpo's discerning judgment.