佛祖統紀 47.26

47.26

In the twenty-third year, in the tenth month: Supervising Secretary and Prefect of Luzhou Ping Ji (courtesy name Jichuan, styled Layman Budong) entrusted the Fiscal Commissioner to temporarily administer the prefectural affairs. He bade farewell to his subordinate officials and donned his formal robes and cap. Facing the palace, he bowed twice, then put on monastic robes and mounted the seat. Resting a staff horizontally across his knees, he spoke a verse and passed away. Earlier, Ji had inquired about the Way with Gao Fori and suddenly awakened to the mind's essential purport. After the crossing to the south, the scriptures were everywhere damaged and deficient; Ji used his salary to produce forty-eight sets of the Great Canon, and the four major divisions of the minor canon in an equal number (in the world, the Avataṃsaka, Nirvāṇa, Ratnakūṭa, and Fajuyuanlin are considered the four major divisions). Wherever he went, he continued the Lotus Society with eminent monks and recluses, and the worthy scholars of the time all followed his transforming influence.