廣弘明集 3.31

3.31

孝緒博極群書。無一不善。精力強記學者所宗。著七錄削繁等諸書一百八十一卷。並行於世。編次佛道。以為方外之篇。起於此矣。

Xiaoxu read extensively across all books; there was nothing he was not skilled at. His vigor was immense and his memory keen, making him the authority for scholars. He composed the Seven Records, the Reduction of Superfluities, and other works totaling one hundred and eighty-one fascicles, all of which circulated in the world. The arrangement of Buddhism and Daoism as chapters on the transcendent realm originated with this.