釋氏稽古略 4.45

4.45

In the fourth month, Chen Hongjin submitted a memorial ceding the two commanderies of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. In autumn, on the thirteenth day of the eighth month, Hanlin Academician and Drafter Li Fang (pronounced fēi-liǎng), Secretariat Drafter Hu Meng, Institute of Historiography Directing Compiler Li Mu, Song Bai, Zheng Linji, and Xu Xuan respectfully presented the Taiping guangji under imperial commission. The compilation ran to five hundred volumes, of which thirty volumes were devoted to recording the Buddhist Dharma.