宋高僧傳 19.32

19.32

釋懷信者，居處廣陵，別無奇迹。會昌三年癸亥歲，武宗為趙歸真排毀釋門，將欲堙滅教法。有淮南詞客劉隱之薄遊四明，旅泊之宵，夢中如泛海焉。迴顧見塔一所東度，見是淮南西靈寺塔。其塔峻峙，制度校胡太后永寧塔少分耳。其塔第三層，見信凭欄與隱之交談，且曰：「暫送塔過東海，旬日而還。」數日，隱之歸揚州，即往謁信。信曰：「記得海上相見時否？」隱之了然省悟。後數日天火，焚塔俱盡——白雨傾澍，傍有草堂，一無所損。由是觀之，東海人見永寧塔不謬矣。

Shi Huaixin resided in Guangling and showed no other extraordinary signs. In the third year of the Huichang era, a guihai year, Emperor Wuzong was led by Zhao Guizhen to reject and destroy the Buddhist community, wishing to wipe out the teachings. There was a Huainan man of letters named Liu Yinzhi who travelled lightly to Siming. On a night of his travels, he seemed in a dream to be sailing upon the sea. Looking back, he saw a pagoda crossing eastward, and saw that it was the pagoda of Xiling Temple in Huainan. The pagoda rose steeply, its design only slightly smaller than Empress Dowager Hu's Yongning Pagoda. On the third storey of the pagoda, he saw Huaixin leaning against the railing and conversing with Yinzhi, saying: "I am temporarily escorting the pagoda across the Eastern Sea, and will return in ten days." A few days later, Yinzhi returned to Yangzhou and immediately went to visit Huaixin. Huaixin said: "Do you remember when we met on the sea?" Yinzhi was clearly enlightened. A few days later, heavenly fire burned the pagoda completely—while torrential white rain poured down, a thatched cottage beside it was not damaged in the least. Viewed from this, that the people of the Eastern Sea saw the Yongning Pagoda was indeed no falsehood.