佛祖統紀 36.51

36.51

In the first year of the Ningkang reign era, Grand Marshal Huan Wen passed away. Earlier, when Wen was in Gushu, an extraordinary nun came to see him and asked to bathe. Wen secretly spied on her and saw the nun stripped naked, cutting open her belly with a knife and severing both feet. Coming out, she said to Wen, 'If my lord becomes the Son of Heaven, it will also be like this.' Wen often harbored treasonous intentions; hence the nun appeared to warn him. When Emperor Jianwen died, he hinted to the court that he should be granted the Nine Bestowals. Xie An and Wang Tanzhi, hearing that Wen was critically ill, secretly delayed the matter, and he died before the text was completed. Afterward, his son Xuan deposed Emperor An and established himself, but was killed by righteous troops.