佛祖統紀 36.84

36.84

永初元年。帝設齋內殿。令沙門道照陳詞。至百年迅速苦樂俄頃之句。帝善之。別賜嚫金三萬○帝始生有神光之異。既長遊下邳。遇異沙門於逆旅曰。天下喪亂。拯之者其君乎。時患手瘡。沙門以黃散藥留之忽不見。以藥傳瘡一治而愈。嘗遊京口竹林寺。獨臥講堂前有五色龍章。諸僧驚以白帝。帝曰。上人無妄言。冀州沙門法稱。謂其弟子曰。嵩嶽神言。江東有劉將軍。漢之苗裔。應天受命。吾以璧三十二枚鎮金一鉼為信。帝聞之令釋慧義往嵩山求之。俄夢長須翁以杖指石下。來日詣廟所石壇求之果獲。因得獻上。帝夢異僧語之曰。君前世曾施維衛佛一鉢之飯。今報斯位。

In the first year of Yongchu, the Emperor held a vegetarian feast in the inner palace, ordering the monk Daozhao to deliver an address. When he reached the lines, 'A hundred years pass swiftly; suffering and joy are but a brief moment,' the Emperor was pleased with them, and separately bestowed thirty thousand in donation gold.
Also, when the Emperor was first born, there was an extraordinary divine light. When he grew up and traveled to Xiapi, he met an extraordinary monk in an inn who said, 'The world is in ruin and chaos; will it not be you, sir, who saves it?' At that time he was suffering from hand sores; the monk left behind a yellow powder medicine and suddenly vanished. When he applied the medicine to the sores, they healed with a single treatment. He once traveled to Zhulin Monastery in Jingkou, sleeping alone in front of the lecture hall; there was the appearance of a five-colored dragon. The monks were alarmed and reported it to the Emperor. The Emperor said, 'Noble sir, do not speak falsely.' The monk Facheng of Jizhou said to his disciples, 'The spirit of Mount Song said, "In Jiangdong there is a General Liu, a descendant of the Han, who accords with Heaven to receive the mandate. I offer thirty-two jade discs and one vase of suppressing gold as a token of pledge."' When the Emperor heard this, he ordered the monk Huiyi to go to Mount Song to seek them. Soon he dreamed of an old man with a long beard pointing with a staff beneath a stone. The next day he went to the stone altar at the shrine to search for them, and indeed obtained them, subsequently presenting them to the Emperor. The Emperor dreamed of an extraordinary monk who spoke to him, saying, 'In a past life, sir, you once gave a bowl of food to Vipaśyin Buddha; you now receive this position as retribution.'