佛祖統紀 48.51

48.51

In the twenty-second year, an imperial stele commemorating the burning of the spurious Daoist canon across the circuits was commissioned. Hanlin Academy officials Tang Fang, Yang Wenyu, Wang Gou, Li Qian, Yan Fu, Li Zhu, and Wang Pan composed it by imperial command. On the renzi day of the tenth month, the civil and military officials were assembled at Minzhong Temple to burn the spurious Daoist scriptures and miscellaneous books; envoys were dispatched to the various circuits to ensure compliance. Hanlin Direct Academician, Drafter, and Co-Compiler of the National History Zhang Bochun was ordered to compose a preface to the case for the Zhiyuan Record of Debating the Spurious. At that time, Master Yongfu, Yang Lianzhenjia, General Overseer of the Buddhist Teaching in Jiangnan, greatly promoted the sacred transformation for three full years and restored thirty-six Buddhist temples.