廣弘明集 8.9

8.9

又勅司隷大夫甄鸞。詳度佛道二教。定其深淺辯其真偽。天和五年鸞乃上笑道論三卷。用笑三洞之名。至五月十日。帝大集群臣詳鸞上論。以為傷蠧道法。帝躬受之。不愜本圖。即於殿庭焚蕩。時道安法師。又上二教論。云內教外教也。練心之術名三乘。內教也。救形之術名九流。外教也。道無別教即在儒流。斯乃易之謙謙也。帝覽論以問朝宰。無有抗者。於是遂寢。乃經五載至建德三年。歲在甲午五月十七日。初斷佛道兩教沙門道士並令還俗。三寶福財散給臣下。寺觀塔廟賜給王公。餘如別述。于時衛王不忍其事。直入宮燒乾化門。攻帝不下。退至虎牢。捉獲入京。父子十二人。并同謀者並誅。

He also ordered the Grand Master of the Metropolitan Directorate, Zhen Luan, to thoroughly evaluate the two teachings of Buddhism and Daoism, to determine their depth and discern their truth and falsehood. In the fifth year of Tianhe, Luan submitted the three-fascicle *Xiaodao lun* (Treatise Laughing at the Dao), using it to mock the names of the Three Caverns. On the tenth day of the fifth month, the emperor held a grand assembly of his ministers to examine the treatise Luan had submitted; considering it to be an injury and ruin to the Daoist teaching, which the emperor had personally received and which ran contrary to his original intention, he immediately had it burned and destroyed in the palace court. At that time, Dharma Master Dao'an also submitted the *Erjiao lun* (Treatise on the Two Teachings), speaking of the internal teaching and the external teaching: the method of training the mind is called the Three Vehicles, which is the internal teaching; the method of preserving the physical form is called the Nine Currents, which is the external teaching. Daoism possesses no separate teaching, but is subsumed within the Confucian current; this indeed represents the utmost modesty of the *Book of Changes*. The emperor read the treatise and questioned his court ministers, but none could counter it; thereupon the matter was shelved. Five years passed, and on the seventeenth day of the fifth month in the third year of Jiande, the year being jiawu, [the emperor] first banned both the Buddhist and Daoist teachings, ordering both monks and Daoist masters to return to secular life. The meritorious property of the Three Jewels was distributed to the ministers and subordinates, and the monasteries, abbeys, and temples were bestowed upon princes and dukes. The rest is as described elsewhere. At that time, the Prince of Wei could not bear the matter; he went straight into the palace and set fire to the Qianhua Gate, attacking the emperor without success. He retreated to Hulao, where he was captured and brought to the capital; the twelve fathers and sons, along with their fellow conspirators, were all executed.