集沙門不應拜俗等事 2.26

2.26

First Memorial: Palace Attendant, your subject Sizhi, and Gentleman Attendant at the Yellow Gates, your subject Yuan Kezhi, and others say: The imperial edict is as above. The spiritual path is dark and obscure; the sacred edict is profound and distant. What Your Majesty magnifies is great, extending even to the men of the Way who revere the Buddha. Within the lands of the realm, there is none who is not a king's subject; yet, relying on the Dharma robes of conversion, they directly match courtesy with the Lord of Ten Thousand Chariots. Our foolish minds are ill at ease with this. How could the ritual of bowing and rising detract from their Way? The great cardinal relations between high and low should not be entirely discarded. If you permit them to be outside the Teaching of Names and omit their rituals of bowing and paying reverence, we request that you decisively refuse audiences to them and memorialize this for the record. Respectfully submitted.