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釋氏稽古略 2.265

釋氏稽古略 2.265

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Classical Chinese

2.265

頊。昭烈王第二子。封安成王。受遺詔輔政。至是十一月廢小帝帝立。在位十四年。壽五十二。帝修佛寺五十所。揚州造太皇寺。寺造七級大塔。造金銅佛二萬軀。造崇皇寺。修故像百三十萬軀。寫佛經十二藏。度僧尼萬人(辯正錄)。

Xu, second son of King Zhaolie, was enfeoffed as King of Ancheng. He received the testamentary edict to assist in the administration. By the eleventh month of this year, he deposed the young emperor and ascended the throne. He reigned for fourteen years and died at the age of fifty-two. The Emperor renovated fifty Buddhist monasteries; built Taihuang Monastery in Yangzhou, where he erected a seven-story great stupa; fashioned twenty thousand gilt-bronze Buddha images; built Chonghuang Monastery; restored 1,300,000 old statues; copied twelve canons of Buddhist scriptures; and ordained ten thousand monks and nuns (Bianzheng lu).

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