佛祖統紀 44.32

44.32

In the eighth year, in the first month, ministers submitted: 'Every year at the Lantern Festival, the imperial carriage visits more than thirty temples and monasteries, making over a hundred prostrations. We hope that from now on, close ministers will be ordered to make prostrations in the various halls on your behalf.' The Emperor said to Wang Dan: 'I pray for blessings for both within and without, reverently and respectfully prostrating and rising without ever slacking. Your desire to reduce them does not accord with my intention' (Guochao huiyao).