佛祖歷代通載 12.63

12.63

（二十七）　是歲則天加號天冊金輪聖神皇帝。作七寶。復聞于闐國梵本華嚴大經。即遣使奉玉帛往求之。并請彼國善梵學者一人。隨經以來。於是于闐主以實叉難提（此云喜學）妙華嚴宗旨遣赴命。則天見之大悅。詔入大遍空寺。同三藏菩提流志法師神測玄景復禮等翻譯華嚴。則天時幸其寺。親施供饌焉。至聖曆二年十月八日功畢。成八十卷。

(27) In this year, Zetian added to her title: Holy and Divine Emperor of the Heavenly Mandate and Golden Wheel, and fashioned the seven treasures. Furthermore, hearing that Khotan possessed a Sanskrit text of the Great Avataṃsaka Sūtra, she sent envoys offering jade and silks to go and seek it, and requested that one person from that kingdom who was skilled in Sanskrit learning accompany the text. Thereupon, the King of Khotan dispatched Śikṣānanda (translated here as "Delighting in Study"), who was proficient in the tenets of the Avataṃsaka, to answer the summons. When Zetian saw him, she was greatly delighted. She decreed that he enter the Dabiankong Monastery to translate the Avataṃsaka together with Tripiṭaka Master Bodhiruci and the Dharma Masters Shence, Xuanjing, Fuli, and others. Zetian frequently visited the monastery in person to present food offerings. On the eighth day of the tenth month of the second year of Shengli, the work was finished, comprising eighty fascicles.