宋高僧傳 15.19

15.19

釋鑑源者，不知何許人也。素行甄明，範圍律道，苾芻表率，何莫由斯。後講《華嚴》經，號為勝集，日供千人粥食，其倉簞中米粟纔數百斛，取之不竭，沿夏涉秋，未嘗告匱，其冥感如此。其山寺越多徵應，有慧觀禪師見三百餘僧持蓮燈，凌空而去，歷歷如流星焉。開元中，崔冀公寧疑其妖妄，躬自入山宿，預禁山四方面各三十里火光。至第三夜，有百餘支燈現，兼紅光可千尺餘。冀公蹶然作禮，歎未曾有。時松間出金色手，長七尺許，有二菩薩黃白金色閃爍然。復庭前柏樹上，晝現一燈，其明如日，橫布玻瓈。山可三里所，寶珠一顆圓一丈，熠爚可愛。西嶺山門懸大虹橋，橋上梵僧、老叟、童子間出，有二炬爛然空中，如相迎送交過之狀。下有四菩薩，兩兩偶立，放通身光，可高六七十尺。復見大松林後忽有寺額，篆書「三學」字。又燈下垂繡帶二條。東林之間，夜出金山。月當于午，金銀二色燈列於知鉉師墳側。韋南康臯每三月就寺設三百菩薩大齋，菩薩現形捧燈，僧持香燈引挹之，鑪在寺門矣。白中令敏中覩瑞，興立此寺。大中八年，改額曰開照。源律師道化，與地俱靈哉！弟子傳講，東川所宗也。

Shi Jianyuan: it is unknown where he was from. He was of clear and upright conduct, modeling himself after the path of the vinaya, serving as an exemplar for bhikṣus—none failed to follow him. Later he expounded the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, which was renowned as an exceptional gathering. Each day porridge and meals were provided for a thousand people, yet the rice and millet in his granaries and baskets amounted to only a few hundred hu; taken without end, through summer and autumn, they never ran out—such was his unseen resonance. His mountain temple had exceedingly numerous miraculous signs: Dhyāna Master Huiguan saw more than three hundred monks holding lotus lamps, soaring through the sky and moving distinctly like shooting stars. During the Kaiyuan era, Duke of Ji Cui Ning, suspecting this to be deceitful sorcery, personally entered the mountain to spend the night, having pre-emptively banned firelight for thirty li around in all four directions. By the third night, more than a hundred lamps appeared, accompanied by red light extending over a thousand feet. Duke Cui bowed down in veneration with a start, sighing at what had never been seen before. At that time, a golden hand appeared amidst the pines, about seven feet long, and there were two bodhisattvas shimmering in yellow and white gold. Furthermore, upon a cypress tree before the courtyard, a single lamp appeared by day, its brightness like the sun, horizontally spreading like crystal. On the mountain about three li away, there was a precious jewel ten feet in circumference, glittering and delightful. Over the mountain gate of the western ridge hung a great rainbow bridge, upon which Sanskrit monks, old men, and boys appeared intermittently, and two torches blazed in the void, appearing to welcome and send off each other as they crossed. Below stood four bodhisattvas in pairs, emitting light that enveloped their whole bodies, about sixty to seventy feet high. Then behind the great pine forest an architrave plaque of a temple suddenly appeared, inscribed in seal script with the words "Sanxue" (Three Learnings). Moreover, beneath the lamps hung two embroidered ribbons. Amidst the eastern forest, a golden mountain appeared by night. When the moon was at the zenith, lamps of both gold and silver hues lined up beside the grave of Master Zhixuan. Wei Gao, Prince of Nankang, went to the temple every three months to host a great vegetarian feast for three hundred bodhisattvas; the bodhisattvas manifested their forms holding lamps, while monks held incense and lamps to welcome them, and the censers stood at the temple gate. Secretariat Director Bai Minzhong, seeing these auspicious omens, established this temple. In the eighth year of Dazhong, the plaque was altered to read "Kaizhao." Vinaya Master Jianyuan's moral transformation of the Way was truly as numinous as the place itself! His disciples transmitted and expounded his teachings, which became the standard for Eastern Sichuan.