佛祖統紀 44.34

44.34

詔於大內丙地建景靈宮。以奉聖祖○勅汀州南安巖名均慶院。賜太宗御書百二十軸。先是釋自誠居巖上。神異不測。云是定光佛化身。見懷仁江有蛟害人。書偈投潭中。水擁沙漲塞潭為洲。其怪遂絕。過梅州黃楊峽。民乏水飲誠以杖指溪。移於近道。每歲有旱。書偈擲之。風雨隨至。其偈後每書贈以之中四字。人世莫曉其旨○詔以太宗御製妙覺集五卷。付傳法院編入大藏。

An edict was issued to build the Jingling Palace at the bing position within the imperial palace to venerate the Sacred Ancestor. ○ An imperial decree renamed Nan'an Cliff in Tingzhou as Junqing Cloister and bestowed one hundred and twenty scrolls of Emperor Taizong's imperial calligraphy. Prior to this, the monk Zicheng resided on the cliff, possessing unfathomable supernatural powers, and was said to be an incarnation of the Buddha Dīpaṅkara. Seeing that a water monster in the Hairen River was harming people, he wrote a verse and threw it into the deep pool; sand surged with the water and blocked the pool, turning it into an islet, and the monster was thereupon eliminated. Passing through Huangyang Gorge in Meizhou, the people lacked water to drink; Zicheng pointed his staff at a stream and moved it near the road. Whenever there was a drought in a year, he wrote a verse and cast it, and wind and rain would arrive immediately. At the end of his verses he always wrote the four characters "Bestowed into the midst of it" (zeng yi zhi zhong), the meaning of which no one in the world understood. ○ An edict ordered that Emperor Taizong's imperially composed Collection of Wondrous Enlightenment (Miaojue ji) in five fascicles be delivered to the Institute for Translating the Dharma and incorporated into the Tripiṭaka.