釋氏稽古略 2.280

2.280

正月。周宣帝贇受朝於露門。始與群臣服漢魏衣寇。大赦改元大成。置四輔官。以大塚宰越王盛為大前疑。相州總管蜀公尉遲逈為大右弼。中山公李穆為大左輔。大司馬隋公楊堅為大後丞。宣帝傳位於大子闡。改名衍。改大成年曰大像元年。宣帝自稱天元皇帝。十月復佛像及天尊像。大像二年正月詔內外命婦皆執笏其拜宗廟及天臺。皆俛仰如男子。天元五月不豫。召劉昉（分兩反）顏之儀入臥內。欲囑以後事。瘖不復能言。昉見靜帝衍幼冲以后父楊堅有重名。遂與柱國沛公鄭繹柳裘等謀。引堅輔政。是日天元殂。壽二十二。祕不發喪。昉繹矯詔以堅總知中外兵馬事。堅革宣帝苛酷之政。更為寬大。天元造像一萬餘軀。命寫般若經三千部。大齋八戒念佛不替（辯正錄）。

In the first month, Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou, Yun, received the court at the Loumen Gate, and began wearing Han and Wei robes and caps together with his ministers. He proclaimed a general amnesty, changed the reign era to Dacheng, and established four assisting ministers: Grand Minister of Works Sheng, Prince of Yue, was made Grand Front Doubt; General Commandant of Xiangzhou Yuchi Jiong, Duke of Shu, was made Grand Right Assistant; Li Mu, Duke of Zhongshan, was made Grand Left Auxiliary; Grand Marshal Yang Jian, Duke of Sui, was made Grand Rear Support. Emperor Xuan abdicated the throne in favor of Crown Prince Chan, renamed him Yan, and changed the Dacheng year to the first year of the Daxiang era. Emperor Xuan called himself the Heavenly Origin Emperor. In the tenth month, he restored Buddhist statues and Heavenly Worthy statues. In the first month of the second year of the Daxiang era, an edict was issued that all titled women of the inner and outer courts should hold hu tablets, and when bowing at ancestral shrines and the Heavenly Altar, they should bow and rise just like men. In the fifth month, the Heavenly Origin fell ill; he summoned Liu Fang and Yan Zhiyi into his bedchamber, wishing to entrust the affairs after his death to them, but was mute and could no longer speak. Seeing that Emperor Jing, Yan, was young and weak, while the empress's father Yang Jian had a high reputation, Fang thereupon conspired with Pillar of State Zheng Yi, Duke of Pei, Liu Qiu, and others to bring in Jian to assist in the governance. On that day, the Heavenly Origin passed away, aged twenty-two. His death was kept secret and no mourning was announced. Fang and Yi forged an edict placing Jian in overall command of military affairs within and outside the court. Jian abolished the harsh and cruel policies of Emperor Xuan and made them more lenient. The Heavenly Origin had made over ten thousand statues, ordered three thousand sets of the Prajñā Sūtra to be transcribed, and observed the great fast, the eight precepts, and the mindfulness of the Buddha without interruption (Bian Zheng Lu).