佛祖歷代通載 22.173

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（十四）　明詔。公諱乞台薩里。早受浮圖法於智全末利可吾坡地沙。圓通辨悟。當時咸推讓之。累贈純誠守正功臣太保儀同三司上柱國追封趙國公。諡通敏。又從國師八思馬學密乘。不數月盡通其書。旁達諸國及漢語。世祖知其材俾習漢文書。領之遂通諸經史百家。若陰陽曆數圖緯方技之說。靡不精詣。會國師西還。携與俱。歲餘乞歸省。師送之曰。以汝之學非為我佛弟子者。我敢受汝拜耶。勉事聖君。相泣而別。比至門。師已上書薦之○裕宗。得召入宿衛。日以筆札侍左右。至元二十年冬有二僧西來見。自言知天象。上召通象胥者。數輩與語。莫能解。有脫烈者言。公可。使立召與語。僧乃屈謝不如。上大悅。明年夏擢朝列大夫左侍儀奉御秋置集賢舘。命公領集賢。公請以司徒撒里蠻領之。乃以公為中順大夫集賢舘學士。兼太史院事。明年夏遷嘉議大夫。明年春升集賢大學士。中奉大夫。明年春進資德大夫尚書右丞。並兼太史院事。冬拜榮祿大夫平章政事兼集賢大學士太史院使。廿八年乞解機務。以為集賢大學士。三十年加領太史院事。自初授官。至是凡八遷並兼左侍儀奉御。明年○世祖登遐○裕聖皇后命公。帥翰林集賢太常禮官。備禮冊立○成宗即皇帝位。明年春以翌戴功加守司徒。大德三年復拜平章政事。十一年春○成宗宴駕。哀慟成疾。秋八月十有七日。薨于大都發祥里第。年六十三。以是月日葬城西南岡子原。

bright decree? The Duke's taboo name was Qitai Sari. In his youth, he received the Buddhist Dharma from Zhiqian Moli Kewu Podisha. Comprehending all and penetrating in realization, he was deferred to by everyone at that time. He was posthumously granted the titles of Meritorious Minister of Pure Loyalty and Preserving Rectitude, Grand Guardian, Specially Advanced and Equal in Rank to the Three Excellencies, Upper Pillar of State, and was posthumously enfeoffed as Duke of the State of Zhao, with the posthumous title Tongmin. He also studied the Vajrayāna under the Imperial Preceptor 'Phags-pa; within a few months, he completely mastered its texts, and he also became proficient in the languages of various countries and in Chinese. Emperor Shizu recognized his talent and had him study Chinese books; having undertaken them, he mastered all the classics, histories, and the hundred philosophical schools, and as for the theories of yin-yang, astronomy and calendar calculations, apocrypha, and esoteric prognostications, there were none in which he was not profoundly versed. When the Imperial Preceptor returned to the west, he took the Duke along with him. After more than a year, the Duke begged to return home to visit his parents. The Master saw him off, saying, 'With your learning, if you were not my Buddhist disciple, how could I dare accept your prostrations? Exert yourself to serve the sage ruler.' They wept and parted from each other. Before the Duke arrived at the capital's gates, the Master had already submitted a memorial recommending him to Emperor Yuzong. He was summoned into the night guard, attending daily at the Emperor's side with brush and writing tablets. In the winter of the twentieth year of Zhiyuan, two monks arrived from the west seeking an audience, claiming to understand the celestial signs. The Emperor summoned several interpreters to speak with them, but none could understand them. A man named Tuolie said that the Duke was capable of it; the Emperor immediately summoned him to speak with them, whereupon the monks conceded defeat and acknowledged their inferiority. The Emperor was greatly pleased. In the summer of the following year, he was promoted to Grand Master of the Court Coalition and Left Chamberlain Attendant. In the autumn, the Academy of Scholarly Worthies was established, and the Emperor ordered the Duke to oversee it. The Duke requested that Minister of Works Saliman oversee it instead; the Emperor then appointed the Duke as Grand Master of Forthright Comportement, Academician of the Academy of Scholarly Worthies, and concurrently in charge of the affairs of the Astrological Bureau. In the summer of the following year, he was transferred to Grand Master of Fine Counsel. In the spring of the following year, he was promoted to Grand Academician of the Academy of Scholarly Worthies and Grand Master of Middle Service. In the spring of the following year, he was advanced to Grand Master of Grand Virtue and Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs, concurrently in charge of the affairs of the Astrological Bureau. In the winter, he was appointed Grand Master for Glorious Happiness, Manager of Governmental Affairs, concurrently Grand Academician of the Academy of Scholarly Worthies and Commissioner of the Astrological Bureau. In the twenty-eighth year, he requested relief from affairs of state and was made Grand Academician of the Academy of Scholarly Worthies. In the thirtieth year, he was additionally put in charge of the affairs of the Astrological Bureau. From his initial appointment to this time, he had been transferred eight times in all, and all the while held the concurrent post of Left Chamberlain Attendant. In the following year, Emperor Shizu passed away. Empress Yusheng ordered the Duke to lead the ritual officials of the Hanlin Academy, the Academy of Scholarly Worthies, and the Court of Imperial Sacrifices to prepare the rites for the enthronement of Emperor Chengzong. In the spring of the following year, because of his merit in supporting the enthronement, he was additionally granted the post of Acting Minister of Works. In the third year of Dade, he was again appointed Manager of Governmental Affairs. In the spring of the eleventh year, Emperor Chengzong passed away; the Duke's grief developed into illness. On the seventeenth day of the eighth month in autumn, he died at his residence in Faxiang Ward in the Great Capital at the age of sixty-three. On that same day of the month, he was buried at the mound plain southwest of the city.