釋氏稽古略 2.265

2.265

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).