Meeting daily with local or visiting scholars ang Taoists, he pursued immortality. He treasured and revised his Secret Book of Origins (, Yuánshǐ Mìshū), a text which survived the fire of Daning and sharply attacked Buddhism as a foreign "mourning cult" at odds with Chinese culture and proper governance.
He interacted daily with local or visiting scholars and Taoists in his quest for immortality. He cherished and amended his Secret Book of Origins (, Yuánshǐ Mìshū), a text that had endured the Daning fire and fiercely condemned Buddhism as an alien "mourning cult" at odds with Chinese culture and proper governance.