佛祖統紀 42.34

42.34

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.