佛祖統紀 42.18

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開成元年正月。左街僧錄內供奉三教談論。引駕大師。悟達法師端甫。右脇而滅荼毘得舍利三百粒。師表率清眾。十有一年。弟子傳業者千餘人。史館修撰裴休撰碑銘○勅沙門雲端充左右街僧錄○上嘗謂近臣曰。天下有無補教化而蠹食於國者。卿等可悉言之。有對者曰。祖宗已來廣行佛教。緇徒益多。茲為蠹物耳。上即勅中外罷緇徒講說佛經。會尚食厨羞御膳烹鷄子。忽聞鼎中有聲極微。聽之乃群卵呼觀世音菩薩。悽愴之甚。監宰以聞。帝遣驗之果然。帝歎曰。吾不知佛道神力乃能若是。勅自今不得用鷄子。又一日食蛤蜊。有擘不開者。焚香禱之。俄變為大士形。帝召終南山惟政禪師問之。師曰。夫物無虛應。此蓋廣陛下信心耳。經云。應以此身得度者。即現此身而為說法。帝曰。大士以現未聞說法。師曰。陛下覩此。為常為非常。為信為非信。帝曰。希有之事焉得不信。師曰。已說法竟。帝大悅。即詔天下寺院立觀音像。勅師住聖壽寺。至武宗即位。乃入終南山隱居。人問其故答曰。吾避仇耳（五祖旁出）。

In the first month of the first year of the Kaicheng reign, the Monastic Registrar of the Left Street, Palace Disputant of the Three Teachings, Imperial Escort Master, and Dharma Master Wuda Duanfu passed away lying on his right side; after cremation, three hundred grains of relics were obtained. The master had led the pure assembly as an exemplar for eleven years; over a thousand disciples transmitted his teachings. Pei Xiu, Compiler of the Historiography Institute, composed the stela inscription. An imperial decree appointed the Śramaṇa Yunduan as Monastic Registrar of the Left and Right Streets. The Emperor once said to his close ministers, "Are there those in the realm who render no benefit to moral edification yet feed like vermin on the state? You gentlemen may speak of them fully." Someone replied, "Ever since our ancestral emperors, Buddhism has been widely promoted, and the black-robed clergy have grown increasingly numerous; these are indeed vermin." The Emperor immediately issued an edict commanding that monks inside and outside the capital cease lecturing on Buddhist scriptures. It happened that when the Palace Food Service was preparing the imperial cuisine and boiling chicken eggs, they suddenly heard a very faint sound from within the cauldron; listening closely, it was the cluster of eggs crying out to Guanshiyin Bodhisattva in extreme sorrow and pain. The culinary overseer reported this. The Emperor sent officials to verify it, and it was indeed so. The Emperor sighed and said, "I did not know the supernatural power of the Buddha's path could be like this!" He decreed that from this day forward, chicken eggs were not to be used. On another day, while eating clams, there was one that could not be pried open. He burned incense and prayed over it, and in a moment it transformed into the form of the Mahāsattva. The Emperor summoned Chan Master Weizheng of Mount Zhongnan to question him. The master said, "Phenomena do not respond in vain; this is surely to broaden Your Majesty's faith. The sutra says: 'To those who should be saved by this body, she immediately manifests this body and preaches the Dharma for them.'" The Emperor said, "The Mahāsattva has manifested, but I have not heard the preaching of the Dharma." The master said, "When Your Majesty beholds this, do you deem it ordinary or extraordinary? Do you believe it or not believe it?" The Emperor said, "How could I not believe such a rare event?" The master said, "She has already finished preaching the Dharma." The Emperor was greatly pleased, and at once decreed that temples throughout the realm erect images of Guanyin. An imperial order directed the master to dwell at Shengshou Temple. When Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne, [the master] went into seclusion on Mount Zhongnan. When people asked him the reason, he replied, "I am only fleeing enmity" (a collateral line of the Fifth Patriarch).