佛祖統紀 53.35

53.35

Emperor Taizong of the Song. Wang Xu, a man of Luze, saw a white rabbit, pursued it into a cave, and found fifty stone Buddha images; an imperial decree ordered that they be enshrined in the county monastery. ○ In the Tongli Army commandery, while digging the ground to build the city walls, ten large stone Buddha images were unearthed; an imperial decree ordered the construction of Chunhua Temple to enshrine these images. ○ Emperor Zhenzong issued a decree to send a gold-brocade kāṣāya to the Zhongge Temple on Mount Luofu to enshrine the auspicious image of Śākya; this image had come from Tianzhu. ○ Emperor Shenzong issued a decree to welcome the jade pagoda of Hengzhou into the capital; it was the ninth pagoda built by King Aśoka. ○ Emperor Zhezong. On Mount Yang in Yuanzhou, a stone reliquary pagoda appeared spontaneously. ○ On Mount Muping in Yuanzhou, a stone reliquary pagoda appeared. During a summer drought, the prefect Wang Gu prayed at the Muping pagoda, and the White-Robed Great Being appeared. He went again to the Yangshan pagoda, and the Great Being of Sizhou and the Upāsaka Vimalakīrti appeared. ○ An arhat image appeared on Mount Dong in Yuanzhou. ○ Emperor Huizong. Jinzhou memorialized that a stone arhat had been obtained that emitted great radiance.