佛祖歷代通載 8.92

8.92

(45, renyin [492 CE]) In the sixteenth year of the Taihe era of the Northern Wei, an imperial edict was issued: On every eighth day of the fourth month and fifteenth day of the seventh month, large commanderies were permitted to ordain one hundred monks and nuns, medium commanderies fifty, and small commanderies twenty, establishing this in statutory regulations as a permanent standard. Confucius was worshipped in the Secretariat.