佛祖統紀 44.53

44.53

After the completion of the eastern feng sacrifice, an imperial edict added the title of True Lord Controller of Destinies to be the Heavenly Worthy of the Nine Heavens Who Controls Destinies and Protects Life. An imperial edict ordered Daoist priests of the Two Streets to revise the liturgical rituals for retreats and offerings. Wang Qinruo, Administrator of the Bureau of Military Affairs, was commanded to establish the Ritual for the Universal Heaven Offering in ten fascicles, and ten Daoist priests were selected to collate the scriptures of the Daoist Canon. The old catalog contained 3,337 fascicles; Qinruo reviewed and finalized it, adding 620 fascicles, and it was bestowed the title Comprehensive Record of Precious Writings, with an imperial preface placed at its head. Earlier, an edict had ordered that wherever the Buddhist and Daoist canons contained mutual slander and vilification, they should all be excised (the present Veritable Records of Lord Lao records Wang Qinruo saying that the Scripture of Laozi Converting the Barbarians was a vestige of the ancient sage and could not be eliminated; but a man of Wang's discernment would not necessarily have spoken these words).