集沙門不應拜俗等事 3.30

3.30

高齊在鄴。六帝二十八年。信重逾前國無兩事。宇文周氏五帝二十五年。初武帝信重佛法。後納張賓之議。便受道法將除佛教。有安法師。著二教論以抗之。論云。九流之教。教止其身。名為外教。三乘之教。教靜心惑。名為內教。老非教主易謙所攝。帝聞之。存廢理乖遂雙除屏。不盈五載身歿政移。

The Northern Qi was based at Ye; across six emperors over twenty-eight years, their faith and esteem surpassed earlier times, and the state had no competing allegiance. Under the Yuwen Zhou house, through five emperors over twenty-five years, Emperor Wu initially placed faith and esteem in the Buddha-Dharma; later he accepted the proposal of Zhang Bin, received Daoist teachings, and intended to abolish Buddhism. Dharma Master Tan'an composed the Treatise on the Two Teachings to resist this. The treatise said: "The teachings of the Nine Schools halt their instruction at the person, and are called external teachings. The teachings of the Three Vehicles quiet the delusions of the mind, and are called inner teachings. Laozi is not the lord of a teaching, but is subsumed under the Qian hexagram of the Book of Changes." When the Emperor heard this, because the reasons for preserving or abolishing them conflicted, he ended up eliminating both. Before five years had passed, his life ended and the regime fell.