佛祖歷代通載 4.139

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（二十三　辛酉）　帝夢金人身長丈六。項佩日輪飛至殿庭。旦集群臣令占所夢。通人傅毅奏曰。臣按周書異記。昭王二十四年甲寅四月八日。平旦之時。暴風忽起宮殿人舍咸悉震動。夜有五色光氣入貫太微。遍於四方盡作青紅色。王問太史蘇由曰。是何祥也。對曰。西方有大聖人生也。王曰。於天下何如。對曰。此時無他。後一千年聲教被及此土。王使鑴石記之。埋在南郊天祠前。以年計之。至今辛酉一千一十年也。陛下所夢將必是乎。帝信以為然。即遣中郎將蔡愔博士王遵秦憬等十有八人。西訪其道至。大月氏國果遇迦葉摩騰竺法蘭二三藏。持優填王第四造白㲲像并四十二章經。愔等奉迎而歸于洛矣。

(23. Xinyou [61 CE]) The emperor dreamed of a golden man sixteen feet tall, bearing a sun-disc around his neck, flying into the palace courtyard. At dawn, he assembled his ministers to divine the dream. The erudite scholar Fu Yi submitted a memorial, saying: 'Your subject notes that according to the Record of Strange Wonders in the Books of Zhou, on the eighth day of the fourth month in the twenty-fourth year of King Zhao, the jiayin year, at dawn, a violent wind suddenly arose, and the palace and people's dwellings all shook. At night, a five-coloured radiance penetrated through to the Taiwei enclosure, and all throughout the four quarters turned bluish-red. The king asked the Grand Astrologer Su You: "What omen is this?" He answered: "A great sage has been born in the West." The king asked: "What will become of the realm?" He answered: "At this time, there is nothing; after one thousand years, the sounds of his teachings will reach this land." The king ordered this recorded upon stone and buried before the altar of Heaven in the southern suburbs. Calculating by years, up to the present xinyou year it has been one thousand and ten years. What Your Majesty dreamed must surely be this.' The emperor believed it to be so, and immediately dispatched eighteen men, including General of the Gentlemen-of-the-Household Cai Yin and Erudites Wang Zun and Qin Jing, to journey west to seek this path. When they arrived in the kingdom of the Great Yuezhi, they indeed encountered the two Tripiṭaka masters Kāśyapa Mātaṅga and Dharmaratna, who carried an image of white fine-woven cloth—the fourth created by King Udayana—together with the Sūtra of Forty-two Sections. Cai Yin and the others received them with reverence and returned to Luoyang.