佛祖歷代通載 9.95

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（四十三）　敘曰。周之藝祖宇文覺者。即魏大丞相泰之世子也。泰舉高陽王為帝。遷都長安號西魏。凡一十八年。廢帝更立齊王為帝。四年而泰薨。覺承魏禪當年被廢。立弟毓為帝。四年而殂。乃立弟邕。邕即周武帝也。閱十餘年至建德初。惑於道士張賓等妖言。惡黑衣之讖除廢釋氏。毀寺院四萬餘所。僧三百萬悉令還俗。洎滅齊未幾改元宣政。五月而殂。太子贇立。自稱天元皇帝。大象二年五月崩。太子衍立。明年二月禪位于隋。周五主凡二十五年國除。初宇文泰及大冢宰宇文護。並崇重佛法。與西域三藏十餘人宣譯經論天文等。凡百餘卷云。

(43) The narrative says: Yuwen Jue, the Martial Ancestor of the Zhou, was the heir of Tai, the Grand Chancellor of the Wei. Tai raised the King of Gaoyang to emperor and moved the capital to Chang'an, styling it Western Wei; after a total of eighteen years, he deposed the emperor and set up the Prince of Qi as emperor instead. After four years, Tai died. Jue received the abdication of the Wei, and in that same year was deposed; his younger brother Yu was set up as emperor, and after four years he died. Thereupon his younger brother Yong was set up; Yong was Emperor Wu of the Zhou. After more than ten years, at the beginning of the Jiande era, misled by the bewitching words of the Daoist Zhang Bin and others, and loathing the prophecy of the "black-robed ones," he abolished the Śākya teaching, destroying more than forty thousand monasteries and ordering all three million monks to return to lay life. After he destroyed the Qi, before long he changed the era to Xuanzheng, and died in the fifth month. Crown Prince Yun was established and called himself the Tianyuan Emperor; he died in the fifth month of the second year of the Daxiang era. Crown Prince Yan was established, and in the second month of the following year he abdicated to the Sui. The Zhou had five rulers and a total of twenty-five years before the state was abolished. Earlier, Yuwen Tai and the Grand Minister of Works Yuwen Hu both revered and honoured the Buddhadharma, and together with more than ten Tripiṭaka masters from the Western Regions, they promulgated and translated more than one hundred fascicles of sūtras, śāstras, astronomy, and the like.