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高王觀世音經　東魏定州民孫敬德者。事觀世音菩薩甚虔。後為賊橫引妄伏承罪。夜夢僧教誦救苦觀音經。敬德誦之。有司行刑。刀三斫而刀三折。監司具狀聞丞相高歡。歡審扣其故。為表請免其死。孫還家所奉觀音像項三刀痕。因之稱高王經也（感應傳）。

The Avalokiteśvara Sūtra of King Gao: Sun Jingde, a commoner of Dingzhou under the Eastern Wei, served Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva with extreme devotion. Later, he was falsely implicated by bandits and wrongfully confessed to the crime. At night, he dreamed of a monk who taught him to recite the Avalokiteśvara Sūtra for Saving from Suffering. Jingde recited it. When the officials carried out the execution, the blade struck three times and broke three times. The supervising officer reported the circumstances in full to the Chancellor Gao Huan. Huan thoroughly examined the reasons and submitted a memorial requesting his death penalty be spared. When Sun returned home, the statue of Avalokiteśvara he venerated bore three blade marks on its neck. Because of this, it is called the Sūtra of King Gao (from the Biographies of Evidential Miracles).