樂邦遺稿 2.69

2.69

The Taiping guangji states: “Wang E of the Tang was the younger brother of Minister Jin. During the turmoil in the Western Capital, Jin took his family into Shu. Following the Jialing River, they arrived before the Beitang Monastery in Lizhou. E, who was seven years old, suddenly said, ‘I once had a scroll of a sūtra hidden in a stone niche of this monastery.’ His parents were astonished by this, so they sent someone along to look for it, and indeed found it; even the wooden comb he had used was still preserved. A monk of the monastery said, ‘This was our monastery boy.’ When they asked the year he had died young, it was precisely the year E was born. His parents from that past life were still alive. Later, he served as an official, reaching the post of county magistrate and recorder.”