廣弘明集 7.20

7.20

Ji said: 'Zheng of Qin was deceived by the Three Mountains; Che of Han was tricked by the Five Profits. To believe and submit to bewitching falsehoods has gone to such lengths as this! If one does not scrutinize truth and falsehood, how can one take warning from past failures?' He further cited five matters to show that during the Song and Qi dynasties, when they revered the Buddha and honored monks, the dynasties were overthrown and the ancestral temples were replaced; this was merely because the Buddha was bewitching and the monks false, harbouring treachery in their hearts, aborting fetuses and killing children, in murky licentiousness corrupting the Way, thus causing the Song and Qi to be wiped out. Now, the Song and Qi