佛祖統紀 44.34

44.34

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.