佛祖統紀 43.61

43.61

In the first year of Zhidao, the monk Kālaśānti of Central India came to pay court; he presented a relic of the Buddha's uṣṇīṣa and palm-leaf Sanskrit sūtras. ○ An imperial decree ordered that in the circuits of Liangzhe and Fujian, for every three hundred monks in a monastery, one could be ordained per year; for every one hundred nuns, one could be ordained; to qualify, one had to recite one hundred sheets of sūtra text from memory and read five hundred sheets. ○ An imperial decree ordered Xingcai, Registrar of Monks of the Two Streets, to present the ritual procedures for the Ullambana festival.