佛祖統紀 29.37

29.37

National Preceptor Vajrabodhi was a native of the Western regions. He personally received the Dharma of Ācārya Nāgabodhi. In the seventh year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang, he arrived at Guangzhou in the Southern Sea and reported his arrival. An edict summoned him for an audience, and he was lodged at the Great Cien Monastery. In a summer drought, an edict ordered him to pray for rain; he set up an altar and drew an image of the Seven Koṭīs [Cundī], stipulating that as soon as the image opened its eyes, rain would fall. After three days, the image's eyes indeed opened; a substance spread clouds from the altar filling the sky, and in an instant torrential rain poured down. An edict commended him. The following year, he took leave to travel to Yanmen, but it was not granted. He was moved to reside at the Jianfu Monastery. Wherever he went, he established altars and created abhiṣeka bodhimaṇḍas. In the eighth month of the twentieth year, he told his disciples: 'When the bright moon is full, I shall depart.' When the time arrived, he circumambulated the image of Vairocana Buddha to the right, placed palm leaves upon his head, sat cross-legged, and passed away. He was posthumously titled National Preceptor of the Abhiṣeka, and a stupa was erected for him at Yichuan.