佛祖統紀 46.35

46.35

In the third year, the translation Tripiṭaka Master Jin Zongchi (Great Master Mingyin Miaoshan Puji), along with the interpreter Renyi and the scribe Zongzheng, traveled south through Jiangnan and Zhejiang to Chexi in Xiuzhou. The śramaṇa Chenggian of Miyin Monastery asked about gathering the three robes to the right and circumambulating to the left or right. Zongchi answered, 'The holy teachings only state that one covers the body with the robes, never that they are hung over the shoulders. In the Western Heavens, circumambulation goes from north to east.'