佛祖統紀 40.20

40.20

七年西天三藏金剛智。循南海至廣州。來京師召見。勅居慈恩寺。智傳龍樹瑜伽密教。所至必結壇灌頂度人。禱雨禳災尤彰感驗○長安罔極寺沙門慧日遊西天還。進佛真容梵夾。召見內殿說法開悟帝心。賜號慈愍三藏。法師所經七十國。往返二十年○三月長者李通玄。以華嚴大經諸家疏義繁衍。乃持新譯經往太原高山奴宅造論。經三年。日食十棗柏葉餅一枚。世號棗柏大士。將齎經往韓莊。忽見一虎當道。長者以經置其背。引登方山土龕處其中室無燈燭口出白光炳照製作。有兩女子日供食一盤及紙墨。坐亡之日。白光自頂上徹太微。所造論四十卷（藏中有長者事迹一卷）。

In the seventh year, Tripiṭaka Master Vajrabodhi of Western India arrived in Guangzhou by way of the South Sea. He came to the capital, was granted an audience, and was imperially decreed to reside at Ci'en Monastery. Bodhi transmitted the Yoga Esoteric teaching of Nāgārjuna; wherever he went, he invariably erected altars, conferred initiations, and delivered people. His prayers for rain and expelling of calamities were particularly conspicuous for their efficacy. The monk Huiri of Wangji Monastery in Chang'an returned from traveling to Western India and presented authentic portraits of the Buddha and Sanskrit leaf manuscripts. Summoned for an audience in the inner palace, his preaching of the Dharma awakened the Emperor's mind, and he was granted the title Tripiṭaka Master Cimin. The Dharma Master had passed through seventy countries, taking twenty years for the round trip. In the third month, the elder Li Tongxuan, considering the commentaries and subcommentaries of the various schools on the Great Avataṃsaka-sūtra to be excessively convoluted, took the newly translated sūtra and went to the residence of Gao Shannu in Taiyuan to compose a treatise. After three years, eating only ten dates and a cypress-leaf cake each day, the world called him the Date and Cypress Mahāsattva. As he was about to carry the scripture to Hanzhuang, he suddenly saw a tiger blocking the path; the elder placed the scriptures on its back, and it led him up Fangshan to an earthen niche where he stayed. Inside the room there was no lamp or candle, but white light emerged from his mouth, brilliantly illuminating his composition. There were two maidens who daily provided a tray of food, as well as paper and ink. On the day he passed away sitting, a white light reached up from the crown of his head to the Taiwei constellation. The treatise he composed comprises forty volumes (there is one volume of the Elder's deeds in the Canon).