高僧傳 7.34

7.34

釋僧苞，京兆人，少在關受學什公。宋永初中遊北徐，入黃山精舍。復造靜、定二師進業。仍於彼建三七普賢齋懺。至第七日，有白鵠飛來，集普賢座前，至中行香畢乃去。至二十一日將暮，又有黃衣四人，繞塔數匝，忽然不見。苞少有志節，加復祥感，故匪懈之情，因之彌厲。日誦萬餘言經，常禮數百拜佛。

Shi Sengbao was a native of Jingzhao; in his youth he received instruction from Master Kumārajīva within the Passes. During the Yongchu era of the Song, he traveled to Northern Xu and entered the Huangshan Hermitage. He further called upon the two masters Jing and Ding to advance his studies. There he held a twenty-one-day Samantabhadra repentance fast. On the seventh day, a white swan flew in and alighted before Samantabhadra's seat, leaving only after the midday incense circumambulation was completed. As evening approached on the twenty-first day, four men in yellow robes circumambulated the pagoda several times and suddenly vanished. [Seng]bao had had lofty aspirations since youth, and now with these miraculous responses added to them, his unflagging devotion became all the more zealous. Every day he chanted over ten thousand words of scripture and regularly bowed in worship several hundred times to the Buddha.