釋氏稽古略 2.272

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周帝詔禪師僧瑋至京。親稟戒誨。勅后妃公卿咸受十善。勅住京城天寶寺及東歸。勅為安州三藏。周帝甞奉佛篤敬。造寺建塔度僧。寫佛經千餘部。忽為道士張賓之惑。始懷毀教之志。甲午年五月十七日下詔廢佛教。俄有旨兼廢道教。法師靜靄詣闕見帝引對。極陳毀教之不宜。及禍福報應之說。周帝為改容。顧業已成。詔旨既頒行。且不可返。因謝遣之。靄退入太乙山。撰三寶錄二十卷行於世（方志）。

The Zhou Emperor summoned Chan Master Sengwei to the capital, personally received precepts and instructions from him, and decreed that his empress, consorts, dukes, and ministers all receive the ten good precepts. He decreed that [the master] reside at Tianbao Monastery in the capital, and when he returned east, he decreed him to be the tripiṭaka master of An Prefecture. The Zhou Emperor had previously revered Buddhism with deep devotion, building monasteries, erecting stupas, ordaining monks, and copying more than a thousand sections of Buddhist scriptures. Suddenly deluded by the Daoist Zhang Bin, he began to harbor the intent to destroy the teaching. On the seventeenth day of the fifth month of the jiawu year, he issued an edict abolishing Buddhism. Soon, an edict also abolished Daoism. Dharma Master Jing'ai went to the palace gates to see the Emperor and was granted an audience. He earnestly set forth the impropriety of destroying the teaching, as well as the doctrine of retribution of misfortune and blessing. For his sake the Zhou Emperor changed his countenance, but seeing that the deed was already done and the edict had already been promulgated, it could not be reversed. He therefore politely dismissed him. Ai withdrew into Mount Taiyi and composed the Record of the Three Jewels (Sanbao lu) in twenty fascicles, which circulates in the world (Fangzhi).