佛祖歷代通載 19.68

19.68

（四十四　己亥）　改宣和○西夏改元德○（左街香積院永道法師等。書諫流于嶺表○睦賊方臘反僭改永樂庚子冬即滅）春正月詔改佛號大覺金仙（餘為仙人大士。僧稱德士。行稱德童。而冠服之。但道冠有徽。德冠無徽。凡法事稱故名者。加之中罪。群臣諫者。酷虐誅之。變風大扇矣。又以寺為宮院為觀。尋改女冠為女道。尼為女德。仍禁銅鐃塔像。下書便令天下德士逐出本寺。不令將帶衣鉢財物。而使道士安心住坐○夏五都城水高十餘丈。水未作前雨數日如傾。及齊開封縣前茶肆人晨起拭床榻睹若有大犬蹲其傍。質明視之龍也。其人驚呼而倒。遂為作坊兵眾取而食之。都人繪之。若世所畫龍。鱗蒼黑色驢首。而兩頰如魚頭。色正綠頂有角。座極長於其際。始分兩岐。有聲如牛。後十日水至。詔林靈素禳水。無驗。泗洲僧伽降現。上命禳水。大士登城水勢頓竭。遂賜號巨濟大士。龍降後一夕五鼓。西北有赤氣數十道。亘天犯紫宮北斗。仰觀星皆若隔絳紗。方起時折裂有聲。然後大發。後數夕又作聲益大。格格且久。其發更猛。而赤氣出西北數十百道。其中又間以白黑二氣。然赤氣為多。自西北俄入東北。又延及東南。其聲亦不絕。迨曉方止○冬十一月放林靈素歸溫州死之。出宋史）。

([Year] 44, jihai [1119]) The era name was changed to Xuanhe. The Western Xia changed [its era name] to Yuande. (Dharma Master Yongdao and others of the Xiangji Cloister on the Left Street submitted a written remonstrance and were exiled to the Lingnan border. The Mu bandit Fang La rebelled and illicitly adopted the era name Yongle; in the winter of the gengzi year he was extinguished.) In the spring, the first month, an imperial edict changed the title of the Buddha to "Greatly Awakened Golden Immortal" (and the rest to immortals and mahāsattvas; monks were called virtuous gentlemen [deshi], and postulants were called virtuous youths [detong], and were made to wear cap and gown. However, Daoist caps bore an emblem, whereas the caps of the virtuous gentlemen had none. Whenever previous titles were spoken of in Buddhist rituals, severe punishments were meted out. Those among the court ministers who remonstrated were cruelly executed. The corrupt trend spread widely. Furthermore, temples [si] were changed to palaces [gong], and cloisters [yuan] to abbeys [guan]. Soon after, female Daoists [nüguan] were renamed nüdao, and nuns [ni] were renamed female virtues [nüde]. Moreover, bronze cymbals, pagodas, and images were prohibited. An edict was issued ordering that all virtuous gentlemen throughout the empire be expelled from their original temples, forbidding them to take along robes, bowls, or property, and enabling Daoist priests to reside therein without anxiety. In summer, in the fifth month, floodwaters in the capital rose to over one hundred feet. Before the flooding began, rain poured down for several days as if overturned. When a worker at a tea shop in front of the Kaifeng County Office rose at dawn to wipe down the benches, he saw what appeared to be a large dog crouching beside them. At daybreak, looking at it, it was a dragon! The man cried out in terror and collapsed. The soldiers of the workshops then seized and ate it. People of the capital drew pictures of it: it was like dragons painted by the world, with dark grayish-black scales, a donkey's head, cheeks like a fish's head, a pure green color, and horns upon its brow; its tail was exceedingly long, only dividing into two branches at its end, and its voice sounded like an ox. Ten days later, the floodwaters arrived. An imperial edict ordered Lin Lingsu to exorcise the flood, but with no effect. Saṅgha of Sizhou manifested his presence, and the Emperor ordered the waters to be exorcised; when the Mahāsattva ascended the city wall, the force of the flood suddenly exhausted itself. Thereupon he was bestowed the title "Great Benefactor Mahāsattva" [Juji Dashi]. On the night following the dragon's descent, at the fifth watch, dozens of streaks of red vapor appeared in the northwest, traversing the sky and offending the Purple Palace and the Northern Dipper. Looking up at the stars, they all seemed veiled by crimson gauze. When it first arose, it made a tearing and cracking sound, and only then erupted violently. A few nights later, it made an even louder sound, clattering persistently, and its eruption was even more ferocious; red vapor issued from the northwest in dozens or hundreds of streaks, interspersed with white and black vapors, though the red vapor predominated. From the northwest it suddenly moved into the northeast, and then extended to the southeast, its sound never ceasing, stopping only at dawn. In winter, the eleventh month, Lin Lingsu was banished back to Wenzhou, where he died. This is recorded in the Song History).