釋鑑稽古略續集 3.31

3.31

In the jihai year, the seventeenth year of the Yongle reign (1419), the two books Weishan yinzhi (Secret Merits of Doing Good) and Xiaoshun shishi (True Accounts of Filial Piety) were distributed to civil and military officials and schools throughout the realm. Sweet dew descended upon the pines and cypresses of Xiaoling for three days. On the twenty-eighth day of the second month, the Right Exalter of the World of the Central Buddhist Registry, Yiru, was granted two hanging scrolls of Buddha images, five pieces of Buddha relics, one thousand guan of paper currency, three volumes of large and small songs of the names of buddhas and bodhisattvas, one hanging scroll of Daocheng Buddha, one hanging scroll of Sixkuo Buddha, and three volumes each of large and small songs, and was ordered to compile and categorize the recorded sayings of the Chan school. On the third day of the third month, eight people, including Daocheng and Yiru, were ordered to collate the Great Canon, compare the new and old versions, and assemble monks to transcribe them.