佛祖統紀 52.41

52.41

Emperor Huizong of the Song decreed that according to the old laws of the ancestral emperors, whenever meritorious ministers and imperial relatives built buildings and acquired land for funerary Merit Chapels, they should merely be granted a plaque and exemption from requisitions, allowing their families to invite the abbot, but they were not permitted to seize already plaqued monasteries. Under Emperor Gaozong, Remonstrator Chen Gongfu submitted a memorial requesting that, for all officials who had previously requested already plaqued monasteries to serve as funerary Merit Chapels, the established laws of the ancestral emperors be applied to rectify them all. Under Emperor Lizong, officials spoke, requesting that the seizure of already plaqued monasteries by grand councillors and executive officials all be reversed and corrected.