貞元新定釋教目錄 12.17

12.17

the imperial carriage went to escape the heat at the Mingde Palace, and the Dharma Master also accompanied them. He was accommodated in the Feihua Hall, where he translated the Da Piposa (*Mahāvibhāṣā) and other treatises. In the fifth month, an imperial decree ordered the Dharma Master to return to the Jicui Palace to continue translating. When the Dharma Master first had an audience with Emperor Wen (Taizong), he had already requested permission to translate scriptures at Shaolin Monastery; by this autumn, in the ninth month, he once again requested to enter Shaolin.