釋氏稽古略 4.263

4.263

Under the Song, Cai Jing was promoted to Grand Preceptor. Tong Guan was given the additional post of Pacification Commissioner for circuits such as Wukang and Xihe. The investiture of eunuchs with military tallies began with this. In the fifth month, Guan was additionally made Acting Grand Minister of Works and was transferred to garrison Taining. Relying on his achievements, Guan thereby selected and appointed generals and officers without consulting the court any longer (Songjian). In Huzhou of Western Zhejiang, a man named Shao Zongyi split open a clam, and inside was a pearl showing the image of an arhat, with his right shoulder bared, his head raised looking to the left, and the folds of his robes completely depicted. Monks and laity were amazed and delighted, and brought it back to the Cigan Tiantai Teaching Monastery south of the city. The monastery overlooked the Tiao Stream. During the Jianyan era, Surveillance Vice-Commissioner Yang Yingcheng passed it around with guests to admire it; inadvertently, it jumped over the railing into the stream. Later, when the stream dried up and the sand was clear, they searched for and recovered it, building a pavilion to store it (Yunyu yangqiu).