宋高僧傳 1.46

1.46

十五載，詔還京，住大興善寺。至德初，鑾駕在靈武、鳳翔，空常密奉表起居，肅宗亦密遣使者求祕密法。洎收京反正之日，事如所料。乾元中，帝請入內，建道場護摩法，為帝受轉輪王位七寶灌頂。上元末，帝不豫，空以大隨求真言祓除，至七過，翼日乃瘳，帝愈加殊禮焉。空表請入山，李輔國宣勅令於終南山智炬寺修功德。念誦之夕，感大樂薩埵舒毫發光，以相證驗，位隣悉地，空曰：「眾生未度，吾安自度耶？」

In the fifteenth year, he was summoned back to the capital and stayed at Great Daxingshan Temple. At the beginning of the Zhide era, when the imperial entourage was at Lingwu and Fengxiang, Amoghavajra regularly sent secret memorials offering imperial greetings; Emperor Suzong also secretly dispatched envoys to seek the secret rituals. When the capital was recovered and order restored, events unfolded just as he had predicted. During the Qianyuan era, the emperor invited him to the palace to establish a bodhimanda and perform homa rites, receiving from him the seven-treasure initiation for the station of a wheel-turning king (cakravartin). Late in the Shangyuan era, when the emperor was indisposed, Amoghavajra performed apotropaic purifications with the Great Suiqiu Dhāraṇī up to seven times; on the following day he recovered, and the emperor treated him with even greater extraordinary courtesies. Amoghavajra submitted a memorial asking to enter the mountains; Li Fuguo proclaimed an imperial decree ordering him to cultivate merit at Zhiju Temple on Mount Zhongnan. On the evening of his intonation and recitation, he elicited Mahāsukhasattva extending a brow-curl and emitting light to verify his attainment, approaching the rank of siddhi. Amoghavajra said: 'Since sentient beings are not yet delivered, how can I deliver myself alone?'