釋氏稽古略 3.65

3.65

泗洲僧伽大士　初自碎葉國遊於西涼。是年顯化洛陽。或問師何姓。士曰姓何。曰何國人。士曰何國人。則天萬歲通天元年。詔番僧有樂住者。所在配住。時大士不欲異凡。乃隷名楚州（今淮安路）龍興寺。澹如也或宴坐於深房。或振錫於長路。中宗景龍二年。詔大士自准寺入宮。帝稱弟子。三台問法。百辟歸心。館于薦福寺。在京數月。天時忽大早。帝請大士內殿祈雨。甘澤隨霑。帝為度慧儼慧岸木叉三人為侍者。帝為書大士所居寺額。曰普光王。先送歸淮。睿宗景雲元年三月。大士示寂。壽八十三。勅奉全身歸泗洲普光王寺。塑身建塔。帝問聖士萬回曰。僧伽何如人。回曰觀音大士化身耳。大士初三十年在於本國。五十三年行化此方。顯應度緣凡二十七處。神迹靈異人共瞻仰。殿宇塔廟在處供養（本傳碑誌）。

The Great Being Sengqie of Sizhou: Initially traveling from the kingdom of Suyāb to Xiliang, in this year he manifested his transformative work in Luoyang. Someone asked him: 'What is your surname, Master?' The Great Being said: 'My surname is He (what).' They asked: 'A man of what kingdom?' The Great Being said: 'A man of He (what) kingdom.' In the first year of the Wansui Tongtian reign of Wu Zetian, an edict decreed that foreign monks who wished to reside here should be assigned to places accordingly. At that time, the Great Being did not wish to appear different from the ordinary, so he registered his name at Longxing Monastery in Chuzhou (now Huai'an Route). He was serene and indifferent; sometimes he sat quietly in a deep chamber, and sometimes he shook his ring-staff along long roads. In the second year of the Jinglong reign of Emperor Zhongzong, an imperial decree summoned the Great Being from the Huai monastery to enter the palace. The emperor called himself his disciple; the three top ministers inquired about the Dharma, and all the officials gave their allegiance. He was lodged at Jianfu Monastery. After he had been in the capital for several months, the weather suddenly became extremely dry. The emperor asked the Great Being to pray for rain in the inner palace, and sweet rain moistened everything immediately. For the Great Being's sake, the emperor ordained the three men Huiyan, Huian, and Mokṣa as his attendants. The emperor wrote a plaque for the monastery where the Great Being resided, naming it Puguangwang, and sent him back to the Huai region first. In the third month of the first year of the Jingyun reign of Emperor Ruizong, the Great Being manifested cessation at the age of eighty-three. An imperial decree ordered his whole body to be returned to Puguangwang Monastery in Sizhou, where his form was modeled and a stupa was built. The emperor asked the holy being Wanhui: 'What kind of man was Sengqie?' Hui said: 'He is an incarnation of the Great Being Avalokiteśvara.' For his first thirty years, the Great Being was in his native kingdom; for fifty-three years, he carried out his transformation in this land. He manifested responses and conditions for saving beings in altogether twenty-seven places. His divine traces and spiritual miracles were revered by all people, and halls, stupas, and temples everywhere made offerings to him (from his fundamental biography and stele inscriptions).