大唐內典錄 4.20

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元魏將季其祚分崩。肅宗孝明崇信佛理。太后胡氏親臨國政。一紀之內天下晏然。及帝之崩。梟鏡相及。爾朱榮死於內殿。吐萬仁擒帝晉陽。高歡承釁。破爾朱於鄴下。宇文接亂。翊平陽於關內。歡乃燒洛宮殿殄絕帝圖。建號天平。徙都北鄴。一十七載扶翼魏室。梁太清三年。武帝既崩。高歡先殞。世子澄襲。相又殂。魏之靜帝乃禪位於高洋。即相王之第三子也。世族武川神用卓詭。愚智混迹賢聖亂倫。建號天保。仍都鄴下。王四瀆之三。統九州之五。誅滅李老。其流出家道士抗者。勅令深剃。遂斬之。於是並歸佛法。十年之中佛法大盛。僧二百餘萬。寺出四十千。並通弘護中興大法。相承六主。二十八年。為周所滅。譯人道俗二頭。出經論八部。五十三卷。為高齊錄云。

As the Yuan Wei approached its end, its dynastic fortunes fragmented and collapsed. Suzong, Emperor Xiaoming, venerated and had faith in Buddhist principles, while Empress Dowager Hu personally oversaw state governance. Within a twelve-year cycle, the realm remained peaceful and serene. When the emperor passed away, treachery and rebellion struck one after another. Erzhu Rong met his death in the inner palace, and Tuwan Ren seized the emperor at Jinyang. Seizing upon these rifts, Gao Huan crushed the Erzhu clan at the foot of Ye. Taking advantage of the turmoil, Yuwen [Tai] supported [the Prince of] Pingyang in Guanzhong. Huan then burned the palaces of Luoyang, extinguishing the imperial designs [there], established the Tianping era, and moved the capital north to Ye. For seventeen years he supported and aided the Wei royal house. In the third year of Taiqing of the Liang, after Emperor Wu had died, Gao Huan had already passed away earlier; when his eldest son Cheng succeeded him, the minister also perished. Emperor Jing of the Wei then abdicated the throne in favor of Gao Yang, who was the third son of the Chancellor-Prince. Hailing from the ancestral clan of Wuchuan, his divine abilities were extraordinary and erratic; folly and wisdom were mingled in his conduct, and he confounded the order of worthy and sagely. He established the era name Tianbao and maintained the capital at Ye. Ruling three of the Four Rivers and governing five of the Nine Provinces, he exterminated the teachings of Laozi. When the Daoist priests of their lineage resisted being defrocked, an imperial edict ordered their heads shaved entirely, and they were subsequently executed. Thereupon all took refuge in the Buddhadharma. Within ten years, the Buddhadharma flourished grandly: monks exceeded two million, and monasteries surpassed forty thousand. All broadly propagated and protected the revival of the Great Dharma. Across successive generations of six rulers spanning twenty-eight years, [the dynasty] was ultimately destroyed by the Zhou. Translators, numbering two individuals across monastic and lay [ranks], produced eight works of sūtras and śāstras in fifty-three fascicles, forming the Catalogue of the Gao Qi.