佛祖統紀 42.34

42.34

三年正月齋日。四明道俗八千人。於阿育王寺供養佛舍利塔。感天華紛墜有如雪色。至手即融。入夜放五色光明。大眾喜躍。明年有新羅僧夜盜塔手擎。遶亭而行。不離本處。為眾所覺。勅沙門靈晏為左右街僧錄○壽昌誕節勅諫議李貽孫法師知玄。同道士於麟德殿談論三教。玄奏宜大復天下廢寺。帝素重師德。命圖形置禁中。

In the third year, on a fast day in the first month, eight thousand clerics and laypeople of Siming made offerings to the Buddha's relic stūpa at King Aśoka Monastery. It brought about a shower of heavenly flowers resembling the color of snow, which melted upon reaching the hand. When night fell, it emitted five-colored radiance. The great assembly leaped with joy. In the following year, a monk from Silla stole the stūpa by night and carried it in his hands; he circled around the pavilion unable to leave the spot, and was discovered by the community. An imperial decree appointed the śramaṇa Lingyan as the Monastic Controller of the Left and Right Streets. On the Shouchang Imperial Birthday, an imperial decree ordered the Policy Advisor Li Yisun and the Dharma master Zhixuan to discourse on the Three Teachings together with Daoists in the Linde Hall. Xuan memorialized that the empire's abandoned monasteries should be restored on a large scale. The Emperor had always respected the Master's virtue, and ordered his portrait to be painted and placed in the imperial palace.