喺永平十四年（71 CE年）正月一號，五嶽十八山觀太上三洞弟子褚善信等六百九十人上表，請皇帝用火驗佛道兩教嘅優劣。同月十五號，永平皇帝集眾喺壇上，驗燒兩教經典，道教嘅書盡成灰燼，而佛經就毫無損壞，摩騰同竺法蘭之後四圍宣揚佛德，凡見到佢哋嘅信眾，都跟住歸依佛門。
On the first day of the first month of the 14th year of Yongping (71 CE), 690 people, including Chu Shanxin, a disciple of the three caves of the Guantaishang of the Five Mountains and Eighteen Mountains, went to the table and asked the emperor to test the advantages and disadvantages of Buddhism and Taoism with fire. On the fifteenth of the same month, the Yongping Emperor gathered people on the altar to inspect and burn the classics of the two religions, and the Taoist books were all reduced to ashes, and the Buddhist scriptures were not damaged.