佛祖統紀 43.41

43.41

In the third month of the third year, plaques were bestowed upon unnamed temples throughout the empire, reading 'Taiping Xingguo' and 'Qianming'. \n The monk Jicong and others of Kaibao Temple returned from Western India and offered Sanskrit scriptures, a Buddha-relic stupa, bodhi tree leaves, and a peacock-feather whisk. They were all bestowed purple square robes. \n In the fourth month, an edict posthumously conferred upon Dharma Master Yuan of Mount Lu the title 'Complete Enlightenment' (Yuanwu) and his stupa 'Condensed Serenity' (Ningji); and upon Dharma Master Yong the title 'Enlightened Serenity' (Jueji) and his stupa 'True Wisdom' (Shizhi). \n The Central Indian monk Panuomo (Padma?) arrived and offered a Buddha-relic stupa and a yak-tail whisk. \n The Western Indian prince Mañjuśrī requested to return to his native country; an edict granted this (he had arrived here in the fourth year of the Kaibao era). \n Hanlin Academicians Li Fang, Xu Xuan, and others presented the *Taiping guangji*. Within it, thirty scrolls recorded the Buddhist Dharma, beginning above from Emperor Ming of the Han down to the Five Dynasties. Assemblies of those who awakened to the mind and attained the Way throughout ancient and modern times, divine monks, scriptural treatises, studies of concentration and wisdom, and portents of belief, slander, fortune, and misfortune among rulers and ministers—there was nothing that was not recorded. \n An edict ordered Court Attendant Zhao Rong to go to Wuyue to receive the King Aśoka Buddha-relic stupa of Mingzhou. \n King Qian Chu of Wuyue submitted his territory and returned to the court. He ordered the Monastic Controller Zanning to escort the Śākyamuni relic stupa for an audience in the Zifu Hall. The Emperor had long heard of his renown, summoning him seven times in a single day, and bestowed upon him the title 'Grand Master of Pervasive Wisdom' (Tonghui). (While in the kingdom, Ning served as Monastic Controller of the Two Zhe circuits, with the title 'Grand Master of Clarifying Righteousness and Esteeming Culture'.) He was appointed to the Hanlin Academy, ranking alongside Academician Tao Gu. Someone mocked him, saying, 'How can these blue latticed windows and vermilion pillars accommodate such a creature?' When talking with him, however, the master cited and verified from the classics and histories in an unending flow; the mocker was awed into submission. Whenever the Academicians Wang Yucheng and Xu Xuan had doubts, they would approach and consult him, all bowing down before him and serving him with the etiquette due a teacher. The Zifu Hall was where Buddha images and scripture canons were placed, and where banners were erected and bells were struck; it was the inner bodhimaṇḍa (*Compendium of Administrative Law of the Dynastic Court*).