佛祖歷代通載 11.8

11.8

（三　乙酉）　太史令庾儉。恥以術官。薦傅奕自代。奕在隋為黃冠。甚不得志。既承革政得志朝廷。及為令有道士傅仁均者。頗閑曆學。奕舉為太史丞遂與之附合。上疏請除罷釋教事。十有一條其略曰。佛在西域言妖路遠。漢譯胡經恣其假託。故使不忠不孝。削髮而揖君親。游手游食。易服而逃租賦。演其妖書述其邪法偽啟三途謬彰六道。恐訹愚夫詐欺庸品。凡百黎庶通識者稀。不究根源信其矯妄。仍追既往之罪。虛擬將來之福。至有躬造惡逆觸法抵刑。方乃獄中禮佛口誦梵言。曉夕忘疲視免其罪。且死生壽夭本於自然。刑德威福關之人君。而愚僧矯託皆言由佛。竊人主權攘造化理。其為害政良可悲也書曰。惟辟作福。惟辟作威。惟辟玉食。臣無有作福作威玉食。害于而家。凶于而國。自五帝三王。皆未有佛法。君明臣忠年祚長久。至漢明始立胡祠。令西域乘門自傳其法西晉已前不許中國之人髠髮出家。洎符石亂華。乃弭厥禁政虐祚短。皆由佛教致災。梁武齊宣尤足為戒。昔褒姒一女熒惑幽王致亡其國。況今僧尼十萬。刻繪泥像以耗天下者乎。陛下以十萬之眾。自相夫婦。十年滋產。十年教訓。自可足食足兵四海免蠶食之患。百姓知威福所自。則妖妄之風息而淳朴之化還也。且古今忠諫鮮不逮禍。近北齊章仇子他獻言。僧尼縻損國家。塔寺虛費金帛。為諸僧尼附會宰相依託妃主陽讒陰謗。子他卒死都市。及周武入齊首封其墓。臣雖不敏竊希其踪。疏奏。不報。

(Third year [of Wude], Yiyou [625 CE; recte eighth year, 625 CE]) Yu Jian, Grand Astrologer, was ashamed to hold office through technical mantic arts and recommended Fu Yi to take his place. Under the Sui, Fu Yi had been a Daoist priest and was utterly frustrated in his ambitions. Having met with the dynastic change, he attained his ambitions at court. When he became director, there was a Daoist priest named Fu Renjun who was quite versed in calendrical science; Yi recommended him to become Assistant Astrologer, and they thereupon allied with each other. [Fu Yi] submitted a memorial requesting the abolition and dismissal of the Buddhist teachings in eleven articles. In summary, it stated: "The Buddha was in the Western Regions; his words were monstrous and the roads were distant. When the Han translated the barbarian scriptures, they gave free rein to his deceptive pretenses. Thus they cause people to be disloyal and unfilial, shaving their hair and merely bowing to sovereign and parents; wandering in idleness and eating without working, changing their attire to evade taxes and corvée. Expounding their monstrous books and recounting their heterodox teachings, they falsely set forth the three destinies and erroneously display the six realms. They intimidate foolish commoners and swindle the vulgar masses. Among the multitude of common people, those with discerning understanding are rare; without investigating the root source, they believe in his falsehoods. They still chase after past sins and fictitiously project future blessings, to the point that when people personally commit heinous crimes and fall foul of the law, incurring punishments, only then in prison do they bow to the Buddha and chant Sanskrit words with their mouths, forgetting weariness from dawn to dusk, looking to escape their sins. Moreover, life and death, longevity and premature death, are rooted in nature; punishment and virtue, majestic authority and blessing, pertain to the lord of men. Yet foolish monks deceptively claim that all derive from the Buddha, usurping the authority of the sovereign and seizing the principles of the transformation of the universe. Its harm to governance is truly lamentable! The Shujing states: 'It is only the sovereign who creates blessings; it is only the sovereign who creates majesty; it is only the sovereign who partakes of the royal delicacies. If ministers have the creation of blessings, the creation of majesty, and the royal delicacies, it will be harmful to their families and disastrous to their states.' From the Five Thearchs and the Three Kings, none had the Buddha Dharma; the sovereigns were enlightened, the ministers loyal, and the duration of their dynastic mandate was long. Only when Emperor Ming of the Han arrived was a barbarian shrine first established, ordering śramaṇas of the Western Regions to transmit their teachings themselves. Before the Western Jin, the people of the Central Plains were not permitted to shave their hair and undergo pravrajyā. When Fu Jian and Shi Le threw China into disorder, the bans were relaxed. Their governance was cruel and their dynasties brief; all were disasters brought about by the Buddhist teachings. Emperor Wu of Liang and Emperor Xuan of Qi should especially serve as warnings! In antiquity, a single woman, Baosi, bewitched King You and brought about the destruction of his state. How much more so now with a hundred thousand monks and nuns, carving and painting clay images to drain the empire! If Your Majesty were to make this multitude of a hundred thousand marry each other as husbands and wives, with ten years of reproduction and ten years of training and education, naturally there would be sufficient food and sufficient soldiers, and the four seas would be spared the calamity of encroachment. When the hundred clans know whence majesty and blessings originate, the custom of monstrous delusion will cease, and simple and pure transformation will return. Moreover, throughout past and present, loyal remonstrance has seldom avoided calamity. Recently, Zhangchou Zita of the Northern Qi offered his advice that monks and nuns waste and harm the state, and stupas and temples uselessly expend gold and silk. Monks and nuns pandered to the Chief Minister and relied upon imperial consorts and princesses, openly slandering and secretly defaming him; Zita ultimately died in the city marketplace. When Emperor Wu of the Zhou entered Qi, the first thing he did was bestow an enfeoffment upon his grave. Though I am not clever, I secretly aspire to follow his footsteps." The memorial was submitted, but received no reply.