佛祖歷代通載 7.20

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太祖道武皇帝珪（其先十一主。國號代晉。始拓跋詰汾。因畋于野遇天女而生力微。即魏之始祖神元皇帝也。）（帝時辟暑五臺山。有梵僧來乞坐具地。帝然之。遂敷坐具于是。頭出星辰。尾搖日月。方圓五百里。皆屬聖基。乃文殊化身也。）（始祖生章帝悉鹿。平帝綽。思帝弗。昭帝祿官。穆帝猗廬平文帝欝律。惠帝賀傉。煬帝紇那。烈帝翳槐。昭成帝什翼犍。已上十一主未通中國○珪按世錄。其先出自黃帝之後。昌意之子。受封北國。有大鮮卑山。自以為號。西晉之亂有拓跋廬。出居樓煩。晉封為代王。於後部落分散。經六十餘年至廬孫什翼涉珪。魏書云。珪即魏太祖道武帝也。太元元年據朔州東三百里築城邑。號恒安。為符堅護將軍。堅敗後。乃即真號太祖道武。殂明元立。元殂世祖太武帝立。自是又四主至世宗孝文帝。遷都于洛。改姓元氏。去胡衣冠絕虜語尊華風。是時天下唯二國謂之南北朝。魏初未聞佛。及神元與晉通聘。方知致信。僧至二百萬。寺院三萬餘所。譯經律論一千九百餘卷。自古佛圖塔之盛無出於此。改年登國）。

Taizu, Emperor Daowu, [named] Gui (Before him were eleven rulers; the state's name was Dai, later Jin. It began with Tuoba Jiefen, who while hunting in the wilds encountered a heavenly maiden and fathered Liwei, who was Emperor Shenyuan, the founding ancestor of Wei.) (The emperor once escaped the summer heat on Mount Wutai, where an Indian monk came and begged for ground the size of a sitting mat. The emperor granted it. Thereupon the monk spread out the sitting mat, whose head surpassed the stars and tail swayed the sun and moon; a circumference of five hundred li all came under the sacred foundation. He was indeed an incarnation of Mañjuśrī.) (The founding ancestor fathered Emperor Zhang Xilu, Emperor Ping Chuo, Emperor Si Fu, Emperor Zhao Luguang, Emperor Mu Yilu, Emperor Pingwen Yulü, Emperor Hui Heru, Emperor Yang Hena, Emperor Lie Yihuai, and Emperor Zhaocheng Shiyijian. The above eleven rulers had not yet communicated with the Central Plains. ○ Regarding Gui, according to the genealogical records, his ancestors descended from the Yellow Emperor, sons of Changyi, enfeoffed in the northern regions. There was Mount Great Xianbei, from which they took their name. During the turmoil of Western Jin, there was Tuoba Lu, who moved to reside in Loufan. Jin enfeoffed him as King of Dai. Later, the tribes dispersed. After more than sixty years, it came to Lu's grandson Shiyi Shegui. The Book of Wei states that Gui was Taizu, Emperor Daowu of Wei. In the first year of Taiyuan, three hundred li east of Shuozhou, he built a city named Heng'an and served as Fu Jian's General of the Guard. After Jian's defeat, he assumed the true imperial title as Taizu Daowu. Upon his demise, Mingyuan succeeded him; when Yuan demised, Shizu, Emperor Taiwu, succeeded him. From then on, after four rulers, it reached Shizong, Emperor Xiaowen, who moved the capital to Luoyang, changed the imperial surname to Yuan, discarded barbarian dress and headgear, banned the barbarian language, and revered Chinese ways. At this time, there were only two states under heaven, termed the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the beginning of the Wei, Buddhism was unheard of. When Shenyuan exchanged embassies with the Jin, they first came to extend faith. Monks numbered up to two million, temples numbered over thirty thousand, and translated sutras, vinaya, and treatises exceeded one thousand nine hundred fascicles. From antiquity, the flourishing of stupas and temples never surpassed this. The reign era was changed to Dengguo.)