Colophon1 [houji]: In Dazhong 11 dingchou year of the Tang [857] Minister Pei personally copied out a manuscript [qin bi xieben]. He handed it over to [fu yu] the Old Monk [lao su]2 of Taiyi Yanchang Monastery on Mt. Wudang in Jinzhou [in Shaanxi]. [The Old Monk] kept it in his possession for fifty years. In the renshen year of the Great Liang [912] the Old Monk transmitted it to [shou yu] Chan Master Weijing,3 who took it back to Hunan [gui Hunan]. And then, twenty-three years later in the jiawu year [934], the Chan Master transmitted it to Qixuan,4 who took it back to Min [Fujian; chanshi shou yu Qixuan gui Min]. And then, after twenty-two years, in the jiayin and yimao years [954–955], in possession of it he entered Wu [southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang] and Yue [eastern Zhejiang]. [There he] copied and disseminated it [shuxie shixing yi]. Recorded by the Fuzhou [Fujian] Sramana Qixuan. Public Affairs Officer [goudang] Yan Kai,5 the son of Yan Ming of Qiantang [Hangzhou in Zhejiang] of the Great Song, [was in charge of] the carving [of the woodblocks] and printing [diaokai ban].6