The Emperor Wû of Liang (502-549) paid great honor to Buddhism. He made a large collection of the Buddhist canonical books, amounting to 5,400 volumes, in the Hwâ-lin garden. The Shâman Pao-_kh_ang compiled the catalogue in fifty-four fascicles. In the period Yung-ping, 508-511, there was an Indian Shâman Bodhiru_k_i, who translated many books, as Kumâra_g_îva had done. Among them were the Earth-holding _s_âstra (bhûmîdhara _s_âstra?) and the Shi-ti-king-lun, the Da_s_abhûmika _s_âstra, greatly valued by the followers of the Mahâyâna.(106) In 516, during the period Hsî-phing, the Chinese Shâman Wei-shang was sent to the West to collect Sûtras and Vinayas, and brought back a collection of 170 books. He is not, however, mentioned as a translator in the K’ai-yuen-lu. In 518 Sung-yun, sent by the queen of the Wei country from Lo-yang to India, returned after three years, with 175 volumes. He lived to see Bodhidharma in his coffin. This Bodhidharma, the twenty-eighth patriarch, had arrived in Canton by sea in 528, in the time of Wu-ti, the first Emperor of the Liang dynasty. Some Sanskrit MSS. that had belonged to him, and other relics, are still preserved in Japan.(107) In the time of the Emperor Wû, of the Northern _K_âu dynasty (561-577), a Shâman, Wei-yüan-sung, accused the Buddhist priests, and the Emperor persecuted them. But in the first year of Kao-tsu, the founder of the Sui dynasty, in 589, toleration was again proclaimed. He ordered the people to pay a certain sum of money, according to the number of the members of each family, for the purpose of preparing Sûtras (the Buddhist canon) and images. And the Government caused copies of the whole Buddhist canon to be made, and placed them in certain temples or monasteries in the capital, and in several other large cities, in such provinces as Ping-_k_âu, Hsiang-_k_âu, Lo-_k_âu, etc. And the Government caused also another copy to be made and to be deposited in the Imperial Library. The Buddhist sacred books among the people were found to be several hundred times more numerous than those on the six Kings of Confucius. There were 1,950 distinct Buddhist books translated. In the period Tâ-yeh (605-616) the Emperor ordered the Shâman _K_i-kwo to compose a catalogue of the Buddhist books at the Imperial Buddhist chapel within the gate of the palace. He then made some divisions and classifications, which were as follows:— The Sûtras which contained what Buddha had spoken were arranged under three divisions:— 1. The Mahâyâna. 2. The Hînayâna. 3. The Mixed Sûtras. Other books, that seemed to be the productions of later men, who falsely ascribed their works to greater names, were classed as Doubtful Books.