佛祖統紀 44.29

44.29

In the sixth year, in the second month, an imperial decree ordered officials throughout the realm to examine postulancy novices in their scripture study before permitting tonsure. / In the fifth month, a golden light appeared above the wheel finial of Fusheng Pagoda at Kaibao Temple, and there was also a holy monk circumambulating the pagoda. The next day, five-colored relics were obtained. The Emperor personally visited to reverently view them. He saw the relics on the exterior of the pagoda, as large as the moon and the same color as crystal, flying and moving back and forth above the bell cords. Gentry and commoners gazed at them together; on the ground bricks, they obtained more than five thousand relic grains. An imperial decree bestowed the title Linggan Pagoda (Pagoda of Miraculous Response). At that time, the Xingci Pagoda of Tianqing Temple in the capital also had relics appear above its wheel finial. The Emperor said: 'The auspicious signs of the image teaching are the blessings of the common people.' / In the eighth month, Vice Minister of the Ministry of War and Polish-and-Embellish Editor of Translated Scriptures Zhao Anren compiled and edited the catalog of the Great Canon under imperial decree, completing it in twenty-one fascicles; the title Dazhong Xiangfu fabao lu was bestowed. The Emperor also bestowed an imperial preface stating: 'Since the Taiping Xingguo era, four hundred and thirteen fascicles of sūtras, vinayas, and treatises have been translated.'楊億 (Director of the Palace Library Yang Yi), Great Master Guangfan Weijing, and others arranged and classified them. They further requested that the imperial collections of Buddhist writings from the two courts be incorporated into the Great Canon; an imperial decree praised and granted this. / An imperial decree granted Mahāsattva Sangha of Sizhou the posthumous title Great Master Puzhao Mingjue; public and private persons were not permitted to directly utter his personal name. / In the ninth month, the Western Indian monk Zhixian and others arrived to present relics and Sanskrit scriptures; they were granted purple robes. / In the eleventh month, relics appeared in the Mingqing Hall of the Sagely Ancestor at Yuqing Zhaoqing Palace. Some considered that within the Daoist gate there was no such thing as relics. The Emperor said to Chancellor Wang Dan: 'The establishment of the three teachings has a single purport. In general, they all encourage people to do good. Only scholars of understanding and insight can integrate them into a single thread. Clinging sentiments and biased attachments only lead farther away from the Way.'