In the middle-ages there was a monk called Wen Shu in Ch'ang-an. Before Wen-tsung's dissolution of Buddhism, Wen Shu's position was very high and he would often takepart in the debates between the three religions in which the emperor would summon representatives of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism to expound on matters of state.
中世紀在長安有個和尚叫文淑，在唐武宗滅佛之前，他地位很高，常參加三教論議﹘﹘當時皇帝親自召集儒、道、釋三教代表，發表經世治國意見的會議。