廣弘明集 25.10

25.10

皇唐啟運諸教並興。然於佛法彌隆信重。捨京舊第置興聖寺。自餘會昌勝業慈悲證果集仙等寺。架築相尋。至於道觀無聞於俗。武德四年有太史令傅奕者。先是黃巾深忌緇服。既見國家別敬。彌用疚心。乃上廢佛法事十有一條云。佛經誕妄言妖事隱。損國破家未聞益世。請胡佛邪教退還天竺。凡是沙門放歸桑梓。則家國昌大李孔之教行焉。

When the August Tang initiated its mandate, all teachings flourished together, yet in the Buddha-Dharma it was especially deep in faith and veneration, giving up the former residence in the capital to establish Xingsheng Temple; other monasteries, such as Huichang, Shengye, Cibei, Zhengguo, and Jixian, were constructed in succession, while Daoist abbeys were unheard of among the common folk. In the fourth year of the Wude era (621 CE), the Grand Astrologer Fu Yi, who had previously been a Daoist yellow turban and harboured deep envy of the black robes, grew all the more aggrieved upon seeing the special veneration shown [to Buddhism] by the state. He thereupon submitted an eleven-point memorial to abolish the Buddha-Dharma, saying: 'The Buddhist scriptures are preposterous and false, their words demonic and their affairs secretive. They bring harm to the state and ruin to families, and have never been heard to benefit the world. We request that the barbarian Buddha’s heterodox teaching be driven back to India, and that all śramaṇas be released to return to their home villages. Then families and the state will prosper, and the teachings of Laozi and Confucius will prevail.'