佛祖統紀 44.22

44.22

An imperial decree directed all prefectures and commanderies throughout the realm that monks and Daoists who committed public offenses were permitted to use the redemption laws. An imperial order declared that ranked officials who, without cause, defamed and humiliated monks and nuns or called them 'bald' were to be suspended from their current office, while commoners were to be exiled one thousand li. / An imperial decree appointed Li Wei, drafter of edicts, to devise topics from sūtras and treatises to examine monks, in order to establish the sequence for promotion and appointments to the Left and Right Streets. (The Left Street was Xiangguo Temple; the Right Street was Kaibao Temple.) / An imperial decree accommodated Chan Master Yunhuo of Xifeng in Jizhou at the Northern Imperial Garden. He entered samādhi for more than a month, and then requested permission to return to his home mountain; an imperial decree granted this. Whenever the Master entered samādhi, a year might elapse before he emerged.