佛祖統紀 49.36

49.36

When literati encounter disaster and difficulty, they study Buddhism; when they attain their ambitions, they speak of 'using Chinese ways to transform the barbarians.' Thus, they attain nothing in Buddhism. With Elder Liao's 'Ode to the Gate of Existence,' did he have attainment in Buddhism? Was Gongkui one who understood him? On the twenty-eighth day of the first month of the second year of the Jingding era [1261], Fazhao of Tiantai inscribed this beneath Yuegui Peak for the Siming scholar Kedeng.