傳法正宗記 1.15

1.15

On the sixth day of the twelfth month in the xinchou year of the Jiayou era, Qisong submitted this Zhengzong ji and Fujiao bian. On the seventeenth day of the third month of the following year, the late Emperor granted their inclusion in the Tripiṭaka so that they might be transmitted alongside the sūtras and vinayas. They were retained in the government administration for seventy-one days, during which the prime minister and various eminent dignitaries personally bent their minds to review them in detail. The radiance and ornament brought to Buddhism in this manner had never occurred since antiquity. How could the disciples of the Buddha, such as Qisong, not feel honored and fortunate? How should they repay this great favor? In the third year after returning to Wu, there was a man of Wu Commandery named Cao Zhongyan and his younger brother Qi Zhongyi, who joyfully heard of this magnificent event; they then recruited artisans at Wanshou Chan Cloister of that prefecture and donated funds to carve the printing blocks, looking up with reverence to assist in the state's vast felicity. Collated by Dharma-transmitters Juechu, Shoujian, Zhiyi, and Xiangseng Shanhui, and checked by Zongyu. Inscribed on the eleventh day of the fourth month in the jiachen year, the first year of the Zhiping era.