佛祖統紀 43.34
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43.34
In the eighth year [975], in the third month, the Emperor visited Luoyang and went to Guanghua Monastery on Mount Longmen, where he opened the stūpa of Tripiṭaka Master Wuwei to gaze upon and revere the true body. In the fourth month, when the Emperor was about to perform the suburban sacrifice to Heaven, rain would not cease; he sent an envoy to pray at Wuwei's stūpa, and when the appointed time came, the weather cleared (Tripiṭaka Master Wuwei came from Western Tianzhu in the fourth year of Kaiyuan of the Tang; he was the leader of the teachings in Chang'an for twenty-three years, and his stupa of extinction is at Longmen in Luoyang). / Returning from Luoyang to the capital, the Emperor personally hand-copied the Diamond Sūtra and constantly read and recited it. Grand Councilor Zhao Pu saw it while submitting a memorial. The Emperor said: 'I do not want the armored soldiers to know of this; simply tell them that I constantly read military treatises.'
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