諸經要集 2.108

2.108

Also, the Benevolent Kings Sūtra says: Kings and ministers, relying on their own noble status, destroy my Dharma to establish regulations, restricting my disciples from leaving household life and forbidding them to make Buddha images; they appoint supervisory officials, register and keep records of the Saṅgha, and make bhikṣus stand on the ground while white-robed [laymen] sit high. Furthermore, kings and crown princes arbitrarily enact legal regulations that do not accord with the causes and conditions of the Buddha's teaching. These are causes and conditions that divide the Saṅgha. When supervisory officials manage the Saṅgha, controlling the monastic registers and harshly constraining them, the Buddhadharma will not endure long.