佛祖統紀 53.20

53.20

唐中宗。敬仰寶塔。勅送供施。委沙門棲曠如法香火○國清智晞至寺禮八萬四千拜。忽感紫文印右臂。終身不沒○肅宗內供奉子璘母亡。岳神令往鄮山禮塔。可免母罪。璘至寺禮至四萬拜。母現身塔前曰。吾承汝力已生忉利○宣宗。四明道俗八千人。於育王寺供舍利塔。天花紛墜放五色光○懿宗。觀察使楊嚴奏舍利寶塔靈異。勅度三十七僧。嚴奉香火。

Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang revered the precious pagoda, decreeing that offerings and gifts be sent, and entrusting the śramaṇa Qikuang to maintain incense and lamps according to the ritual regulations. Zhixi of Guoqing Monastery came to the monastery and made eighty-four thousand prostrations; suddenly purple markings spontaneously appeared on his right arm, which never faded throughout his life. When the mother of the Palace Chaplain Zilin died during Emperor Suzong's reign, the sacred peak deity instructed him to go to Mount Mao to pay homage to the pagoda so as to relieve his mother's sins. When Lin reached the monastery and completed forty thousand prostrations, his mother manifested her form before the pagoda and said: "Relying on your power, I have already been reborn in Trāyastriṃśa." Under Emperor Xuanzong, eight thousand monastics and laypersons of Siming offered worship before the relic pagoda at King Aśoka Monastery; heavenly flowers fell in abundance, and five-colored light radiated. Under Emperor Yizong, Surveillance Commissioner Yang Yan memorialized the miraculous manifestations of the precious relic pagoda; thirty-seven monks were ordained by decree to reverently maintain the incense and lamps.