宋高僧傳 27.6

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釋定光者，不知何許人也。爰從入法，厥性弗拘，糲食斷中，麁襦卒歲。方於庸蜀化導有緣，事或多魔，教鍾中𠘶。俄遭武宗毀廢，例反儒宗。及乎佛日重暉，僧倫咸序，光同締構寺宇，因鑄大鐘，計赤金萬餘斤。爾日鼓籥灰飛，投鑪火熾，有祥煙兩道自浮圖相輪最高處出，冉冉射上，若虹蜺焉。萬人引望，五色騰凌，相感如然，信鼓斯應。其塔是阿育王藏舍利之所。大和初南蠻蒙傞顛剽掠入益城，分蠻卒舍于寺內廊廡，皆烹炙熏灼，僧皆奔迸。時塔頂出四道濃煙，分穗直上空虛，至夜。蠻蜑覩此奇異，乃禁止污穢。此塔先在西北四十餘步，天寶末長史章仇兼瓊赴任，至劍門，見一人長一丈餘，持戟當路。兼瓊驚問，對曰：「某是大石寺護塔神，故來奉迎，且有少事咨祈大夫也。緣大石寺塔在西南，未為極善，今請移東北四十二步。伏望便掘石此下，以鎮舍利。」兼瓊曰：「此易耳。」遂隱厥形，到府數日，乃令量其地處，先掘，果得巨石，其深無際。促石匠數十人鏨鑿之，至夜，輒填滿。遣人潛伺之，見有白彘數十以喙推石末塞之，隨以舌舐，其堅如鐵錮矣。章仇止令勿鑿，遂移塔於今所，即金華舊寺基也。光鐘亦移入新寺焉。

The śramaṇa Dingguang's origins are unknown. From the time he entered the Dharma, his nature was unconstrained; he took coarse food to break his fast and wore crude robes through the passing of the years. When he was converting and guiding those with karmic affinity in the region of Shu, obstacles were many, and his teaching struck a middle ground between worldly and sacred. Suddenly he encountered the suppression under Emperor Wuzong, and he was returned to the secular Confucian fold in accordance with the general decree. When the sun of the Buddha shone again and the ranks of the saṅgha were once more restored, Dingguang joined in rebuilding the temple buildings and consequently cast a great bell, calculating more than ten thousand catties of red bronze. On that day, as the bellows blew and ashes flew, and the fire blazed in the furnace, two plumes of auspicious smoke emerged from the highest point of the stupa's harmikā rings, slowly shooting upward like a rainbow. Ten thousand people stretched their necks to gaze upon it, as the five colors soared and surpassed, their mutual resonance manifesting like this, and faith responding to the stroke of the drum. This stupa was a place where King Aśoka had enshrined relics (śarīra). At the beginning of the Dahe reign-period, Meng Cuodian, the Southern Man barbarian, plundered and entered the city of Yizhou. He quartered the barbarian soldiers along the corridors and verandahs inside the temple, where they boiled, roasted, and smoked meat, causing all the monks to flee. At that time, four plumes of thick smoke issued from the top of the stupa, branching into distinct tails and rising straight into the empty sky until nightfall. When the Man and Dan barbarians witnessed this extraordinary sign, they prohibited defilement. This stupa had formerly stood more than forty paces to the northwest. At the end of the Tianbao era, when Administrative Assistant Zhangchou Jianqiong was traveling to take up his post and reached Jianmen, he saw a person over ten feet tall holding a halberd and blocking the road. Jianqiong asked in surprise, and the figure answered: 'I am the stupa-protecting deity of Dashi Temple. I have come especially to welcome you, and I also have a small request to make of the Grandee. Because the stupa of Dashi Temple is in the southwest, it is not in the most auspicious position; I now request that you move it forty-two paces to the northeast. I humbly hope that you will dig down through the stone beneath it to preserve the relics.' Jianqiong said: 'This is easy.' The figure then vanished. A few days after arriving at the prefecture, [Zhangchou Jianqiong] ordered that the site be measured. When they first excavated, they indeed found a massive rock whose depth was boundless. He urged several tens of stonemasons to chisel away at it, but whenever night fell, it would be completely refilled. He sent men to secretly watch, and they saw several tens of white pigs pushing stone dust with their snouts to block the holes, then licking it with their tongues so that it became as firm as an iron seal. Zhangchou stopped them from chiseling, and so the stupa was moved to its present location, which is the old foundation of Jinhua Temple. Dingguang's bell was also moved into the new temple.