貞元新定釋教目錄 13.19

13.19

...an imperial decree conferred upon him the title of 'Tripiṭaka', and he began translating scriptures at Fuxian and Shouji Monasteries. In the second year of Shenlong, the imperial chariot visited the Western Capital, and an imperial decree again ordered him to translate scriptures at Jianfu Monastery. The texts translated by him throughout his life amounted to one hundred and seven works in four hundred and twenty-eight fascicles, all of which were ordered by imperial decree to be compiled into the catalogue of all scriptures. Yet the boat slips away silently in the night, and the morning light does not linger. The dream of resting against the pillar suddenly came to pass, and the song of dragging the walking stick abruptly arrived. On the seventeenth day (xinsi) of the first month (which began on yichou) in the second year of Xiantian, he manifested illness and passed away in the Translation Court of Jianfu Monastery at the age of seventy-nine.