大宋僧史略 2.16

2.16

The institutional systems established in the Northern dynasties mostly subordinated [nuns] to monks. In the southern lands, a new regulation separately implemented [the office of] Rectifier of Nuns. In the second year of the Taishi reign of the Song (466 CE), the nun Baoxian was decreed to be Rectifier of Bhikṣuṇīs, and Fajing was also made Metropolitan Karmadāna for Nuns. This was the gradual beginning of filling vacancies [with such offices]. During the Liang, Chen, Sui, and Tang, one rarely hears of such matters. In the regional hegemonic states, one occasionally hears of the titles Controller of Nuns and Rectifier of Nuns.