集沙門不應拜俗等事 3.30

3.30

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.