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His profound virtue reached the divine spirits, and his supreme achievements embraced nature itself. When the abdication began, he had no need to put on armor; on the morning he was joyfully acclaimed, the myriad deeds all flourished. Thereupon, grasping the armillary sphere he revolved the celestial patterns; treading the Hall of Culture he aligned with the Dipper's pivot. In his enterprise of weaving the heavens and measuring the earth, he added glory to the Purple Forbidden Enclosure; in his stature of benevolence, flourishing sagacity, and brightness, he joined his brilliance with the sun and moon. His ultimate virtue reached humans and spirits; his spiritual transformation harmonized yin and yang. His awe shook the nine regions, and his bounty moistened the four seas. Continuing the grand heritage of the Three Sovereigns and carrying on the illustrious traces of the Five Thearchs, neither Wen and Jing nor Cheng Tang could match him. Thus, black turtles, red sparrows, auspicious deer, and propitious dragons gathered together at the river shoals and romped together in the orchid gardens. He summoned the zouyu to Pingle and brought down the qilin upon Fuchang. Eastern sole-fish and western jian-birds fluttered in the imperial parks; cinnabar crows and emerald phoenixes dazzled in the Hualin Gardens. Lingzhi mushrooms sprang forth in the palace halls, and column bases turned to fine jade. Rocks split open with marvelous characters; mountains gave voice to joyful sounds. Sweet dew dropped like nectar, and springs surged as radiant stars. Luminous waves floated in the wells, and cinnabar grass grew in thickets. Auspicious grain formed entwined ears. The crippled could walk, and the mute could speak. His loving-kindness extended throughout the nine reaches, and his moisture enriched the eight limits. With clear counsel he conformed to bygone transformations; with profound calculation he foresaw future years. Holy and divine, abundant in skill and diverse in art, his government of wuwei remotely succeeded the Lilina, and his wind of the Dao truly rivaled Yan and Hao. Hearing of it, litigants ceased their disputes, and every household seemed worthy of enfiefment. He set his mind upon propagating and protecting \[the Dharma\], and gave thought to guiding and uplifting others, acting as a pillar and beam for the Three Jewels and bearing up the four kinds of living beings. In the third year of Kaihuang, he issued an edict: "We revere and esteem the sacred teachings, and have our thoughts fixed on the divine shrines. All temples abolished under the Zhou dynasty may be restored." Su Wei, the Governor of Jingzhao, received the edict and chose scenic and eminent sites within the capital to establish monasteries (saṅghārāmas). Thereupon, throughout the entire capital, regardless of size, wherever there were monks practicing, they were permitted to build, and all received public names. In the past, on the guichou day of the sixth month of the seventh year of the Datong reign of the Later Wei, Gaozu was born in the room of a divine nun at the Prajñā Nunnery in Tongzhou. At that time, the true essence responded in dark communion, and red light filled the room, its floating brilliance overflowing through the door, and purple flames illuminating the sky. Those inside who witnessed it were all astonished, and bound each other under oath not to let it be heard outside. By the third day, purple vapor filled the courtyard, and all persons and objects inside turned purple. Looking at it from four neighborhoods, the vapor was like a rotating parasol or a tall tower. There were also balmy winds and sweet dew, entwined ears of grain and joined branches, wondrous flowers blooming in ponds, and rare fruits ripening in forests. Poisonous insects went into hiding, and auspicious birds soared and sang. He was then nurtured and protected by the divine nun. When he ascended the throne, he remembered his former dwelling. In the fourth year of Kaihuang, on behalf of Taizu, Emperor Wuyuan, and Empress Dowager Yuanming, he built the Daxingguo Temple on the former foundation of the Prajñā Nunnery. The Prajñā Nunnery had previously suffered devastation during the Jiande era, leaving it desolate inside and out, with every inch of beam and foot of rafter swept away entirely. He therefore opened and enlarged its design, lavishly multiplying its splendor. Seven storeys circled around, supported by a hundred brackets. Niche chambers stood high and loftily; balustrades and eaves stretched continuously. Golden disks caught the dew beyond the clouds, and jeweled bells swayed in the heavenly breeze. Furthermore, because Taizu had formerly served in Sui Prefecture, he also built a Daxingguo Temple there. In the capital, he built Daxingshan Temple, widely erecting a sacred pagoda and extensively establishing heavenly halls. The images and settings rested in emptiness; plum-wood crossbeams were suspended in the vastness. Jade-adorned tiles shone with colors, and jade lintels contained luminescence. Painted brackets bore up clouds, and cinnabar pillars raised up the sun. The wind harmonized the jeweled bells, and the rain moistened the pearl banners. In the forests blossomed the flowers of the seven factors of enlightenment, and in the ponds rippled the waters of the eight virtues. He summoned six Great Virtues and renowned monks from the four seas, constantly maintaining some three hundred men and making offerings of the four necessities to them. In the fifth year of Kaihuang, he invited the Great Virtue Master of Sūtras to administer the bodhisattva precepts. On this occasion, he released prisoners from jail and issued an edict saying: "We have long inherited abundant blessings and respectfully succeeded to the precious mandate. Just as We desire to take refuge in all-encompassing enlightenment and earnestly revere the supreme fruit, on the twenty-third day of this month We have invited the Master of Sūtras to Daxingshan Palace to administer the bodhisattva precepts. Now, the teachings of a bodhisattva take liberation as foremost, and the foundation of moral conduct takes loving-kindness and compassion as its beginning. At present, those confined in prisons cause grief to Our heart. All who have committed offenses punishable by banishment or below may be pardoned and released." Calculating the petty criminals throughout the empire who were released in advance, there were more than 24,900 persons; those whose death sentences were commuted numbered more than 3,700 persons. All who have teeth and wear hair rushed about dancing for joy; every household received blessings, and every person offered congratulations. Our intention is to reform their benighted minds, brighten this sun of wisdom, and cause living beings to turn toward good together. In that year, an imperial decree stated: "The Buddha entrusted the true Dharma to the king of the state. We are the sovereign among men who has received the Buddha's entrustment. From now on until the end of Our life, two times seven monks shall constantly be invited each month, serving in rotation: four sūtra masters and three Great Virtues, to read all the sūtras in Daxingshan Palace. Though Our eyes peruse the myriad affairs of state, Our ears feast on the flavor of the Dharma." Every night when circumambulating and practicing the Way, the Empress and palace ladies personally listened to the recitation of the sūtras; if there was any doubtful passage, they inquired of the three Great Virtues. He also built Tianju Temple in Bozhou and Wude Temple in Bingzhou, each with twelve courtyards front and back, and more than a thousand bays of residential quarters all around, providing offerings for some three hundred monks. Beginning from the days when he was a hidden dragon, in the forty-five prefectures through which he had passed, he built Daxingguo Temples in all of them. At Renshou Palace he built Sanshan Temple, and for Empress Xian he built East Chanding Temple. Furthermore, he issued an edict: "If anyone can rise above worldly dust in pure transcendence and diligently seek to transcend the world, all may be encouraged and given instruction to serve as models. Mountain valleys are quiet and remote, concealing the spiritual and harboring the extraordinary; they are what recluses love, and where immortals and sages dwell. Those who study the Way and aspire to it are many; they rest by stone springs and wander among crags and forests, and the sustenance needed by their physical forms must be provided. Beneath the Five Peaks and renowned mountains of the prefectures, one Buddhist monastery together with farmland and estates shall be established in each place." In the first year of Renshou, Emperor Wen, Empress Xian, the palace ladies, and others were all moved by relics emitting universal radiance. When tested with anvil and hammer, they remained entirely undamaged. In forty prefectures, jeweled pagodas were individually erected, and their brilliant luster and extraordinary miracles were fully recorded as in Wang Shao's account. From the beginning of Kaihuang to the end of Renshou, the monks and nuns ordained numbered 230,000; the temples within the realm numbered 3,792. In all, forty-six collections of the Tripiṭaka containing 132,086 fascicles of sūtras and treatises were copied; 3,853 sets of damaged sūtras were repaired; 106,580 images of various sizes in gilded bronze, sandalwood, lacquer-cloth, ivory, and stone were made; and some 1,508,940 damaged images were restored. Within the palace, embroidered, woven, and painted images, as well as five-colored pearl banners and five-colored painted banners were constantly manufactured beyond count. 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