佛祖歷代通載 12.63

12.63

(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.