佛祖統紀 45.4

45.4

The first year of Tiansheng [1023]. His Majesty frequently wore a jade crown carved with an image of Avalokiteśvara. The attendants, presenting jade to him, repeatedly requested that he change it. His Majesty said: "The Three Excellencies and the hundred officials who bow below are all the eminent and worthy of the realm. How could I dare receive it? It is merely that the distinction between sovereign and minister leaves no alternative. Wearing this crown, I intend to have them return their homage to the Great Being" (Zhengshi jiaji). ○ An edict ordered the palace attendant Yang Huaigu to offer incense and proceed to Ling Shan in Tianzhu to pray for the country's welfare. Dharma Master Ciyun [Zun]shi again requested that the Tiantai doctrinal texts be admitted into the canon; Huaigu memorialized this to His Majesty. ○ The state of Zhunian in the Southern Sea sent envoys to present Indian Sanskrit scriptures on gold leaves. An edict ordered the Tripiṭaka Master Dharmarakṣa to translate them. ○ Dharma Master Fazhi of Yanqing in Siming examined his students on doctrinal meanings, calling it "Opening the Curtain in Forty-Two Chapters," which has served as a model down to the present.