佛祖歷代通載 22.5

22.5

Thrice Becoming a Buddha, the Eleventh Fabrication: (The thirty-fourth transformation says: 'Laojun told the Hu king: "I will cause my disciple to become a Buddha, and you must take him as your teacher." He then caused Yin Xi to transform his body into a Buddha, serving as a teacher to the Hu people, instructing them to become śramaṇas, conferring upon them the Dharma of the Buddha, and expounding the Sūtra in Forty-Two Sections.' It also says: 'Laojun went to the kingdom of Śrāvastī and himself transformed into a Buddha, sitting upon a seven-jeweled throne, his body being millions of fathoms tall, filling the entire empty sky.' It also says: 'Laojun, wishing to reorganizing the Buddhist teachings, in the ninth year of King Zhuang of Zhou, commanded his disciple King Fantuo from the Brahmā Heaven to mount the essence of the moon and lodge within the womb of Lady Māyā in Tianzhu. On the eighth day of the fourth month in the tenth year, he was born from her right flank. Later he entered the Snow Mountains to practice asceticism for six years, completed the Way, gathered the multitude of buddhas, and was called Moni. In the fourth year of King Kuang, he was dissolved and transformed, and the Supreme One commanded him to ascend to the Jiayi Heaven as the Sage Shanhui.')