弘明集 8.44

8.44

三破論曰。有此三破之法。不施中國。本正西域。何言之哉。胡人無二剛強無禮。不異禽獸。不信虛無。老子入關故作形像之教化之。又云。胡人麁獷欲斷其惡種故。令男不娶妻女不嫁。夫一國伏法自然滅盡。

The Treatise on the Three Destructions says: "These methods of the three destructions are not applied in the Middle Kingdom; originally, they were used to rectify the Western Regions. Why say so? The barbarians have no duplicate [nature]; they are stubborn, unyielding, and devoid of propriety, no different from birds and beasts, and do not believe in emptiness and non-being. When Laozi passed through the pass, he therefore devised the teaching of images to convert them. It also says: 'The barbarians are crude and ferocious; wishing to cut off their evil seed, he therefore commanded that men not take wives and women not marry.' When an entire country submitted to this law, they naturally went extinct."