釋氏稽古略 3.296

3.296

The year jiachen: the fourth year of Zhonghe. Huang Chao having been destroyed, in the seventh month of autumn Li Keyong reached Jinyang and sent an envoy to present a memorial, vehemently stating that Zhu Quanzhong was envious of merits and jealous of abilities, and would ultimately become a calamity for the state; he submitted a total of eight memorials requesting that [Zhu] be executed and suppressed. The Emperor considered that since affairs were pressing, he should for the time being maintain the overall situation; he issued an edict praising Keyong and reconciling the matter. At that time, eastern Zhe suffered famine and pestilence; Chan Master Youzhang of the Puxian Repentance Cloister in Ming Prefecture gathered and buried several thousand starved corpses and remains across the three commanderies of Tai, Wen, and Ming. Contemporary people called the Master the 'Bodhisattva of Increasing Compassion' (Biographies of Eminent Monks).