高僧傳 9.25

9.25

Deng once sent a disciple to the Western Regions to buy incense. After he departed, Deng told the other disciples: "In my palm, I see the disciple buying incense being robbed at a certain place and on the verge of death." Thereupon he burned incense, made vows, and protected him from afar. The disciple later returned and said: "On such a month, such a day, and at such a place, I was robbed by bandits and was on the verge of being killed, when suddenly I smelled an aroma, and the bandits took fright without cause, saying: 'Reinforcements have already arrived!' They abandoned me and fled."