高僧傳 13.28

13.28

初像素既成，比丘道昭常夜中禮懺。忽見素所，晃然洞明。詳視久之，乃知神光之異。鑄後三日，未及開模。有禪師道度，高潔僧也，捨其七條袈裟，助費開頂。俄而遙見二僧，跪開像髻，逼就觀之，倏然不見。時悅靖二僧，相次遷化。勅以像事委定林僧祐。其年九月二十六日移像光宅寺，是月不雨，頗有埃塵。及明將遷像，夜有輕雲遍上，微雨沾澤。僧祐經行像所，係念天氣，遙見像邊有光焰上下，如燈如燭，并聞槌懺禮拜之聲。入戶詳視，揜然俱滅，防寺蔣孝孫亦所同見。是夜淮中賈客，並聞大航舶下，催督治橋，有如數百人聲。將知靈器之重，豈人致焉？

When the clay core of the image was first completed, the bhikṣu Daozhao would often perform repentance rites in the middle of the night. Suddenly, he saw the place of the clay core shining brightly with brilliant light. Looking closely for a long time, he realized it was an extraordinary spiritual light. Three days after the casting, before the mold could be opened, there was the dhyāna master Daodu, a monk of pure and lofty conduct, who gave up his seven-strip kāṣāya to help cover the expense of opening the uṣṇīṣa. Soon, he saw two monks from afar kneeling to open the topknot of the image; when he approached to look closely, they vanished abruptly. At that time, the two monks Yue and Jing passed away one after the other. By imperial decree, the affairs of the image were entrusted to Sengyou of Dinglin Temple. On the twenty-sixth day of the ninth month of that year, the image was moved to Guangzhai Temple. It had not rained that month, and there was considerable dust. When it was about to be moved at dawn, light clouds covered the sky in the night, and a fine drizzle moistened the earth. Sengyou was walking mindfully near the image, contemplating the weather, when he saw flames of light rising and falling beside the image from afar, like lamps and candles, and also heard the sounds of the striking chime and prostrations of repentance. Entering the hall to look closely, everything suddenly vanished; Jiang Xiaosun, who guarded the temple, also saw this together with him. That night, merchants along the Huai River all heard under the great boat bridge the urgent directing of bridge repairs, with the sound as if of hundreds of people. From this one knows that such an important spiritual vessel could hardly have been brought about by human power alone.