佛祖統紀 44.19

44.19

In the second year, in the first month, celebrating the Feng and Shan sacrifices, an imperial decree ordered that each temple and monastery throughout the realm ordain one person to participate in the imperial audience at Mount Tai; the monks and Daoists who occupied secondary positions were each to ordain one disciple. / An imperial decree granted Shengzhou's Chongsheng Temple the name Chengtian Ganlu Precept Platform. / An imperial order appointed Great Master Guangfan, Weijing, as Probationary Chief Minister of the Court of Imperial Entertainments, concurrently participating in the translation of scriptures. / In the ninth month, the Grand Princess of Wu renounced household life. Her Dharma name was Qingyu, and she was granted the title Great Master Baoci Zhengjue. She was the seventh daughter of Taizong; in her youth she did not consume meat or blood. When the Emperor visited Yansheng Temple, she held onto [the statue of] the Buddha and vowed to renounce household life as a nun. Coming to this time, she requested the shaving of her head. An imperial decree ordered the construction of the Zisheng Cloister for her to reside in. An imperial order commanded Buddhist ceremonial regalia (such as bells, drums, cymbals, banners, and streamers) and the musicians of the Imperial Academy of Music to welcome and guide her. At that time, the daughters of the Prince of Mi and the Prince of Cao, along with more than thirty palace women, all followed her in renouncing household life. An imperial decree on that day granted a general ordination of boys across the realm, ordaining one out of ten. / An imperial decree ordered that Yingtian Temple be constructed at the Jiama Barracks in Luoyang, the birthplace of Taizu, in order to revere his divine image.