弘贊法華傳 6.26

6.26

釋僧遷。會稽人。少而博學。多所該通。每常講說。著諸經疏。甚有精理。誦法華積五十餘載。以梁明帝天保四年九月二十七日向曉。夢見普賢菩薩乘白象。從東方來。手執白物。指僧遷頂。當時知是普賢。心中驚喜。唯得口稱南無普賢菩薩。未及施禮。即便覺窹。後不知所終。

Śramaṇa Sengqian was a man of Kuaiji. In his youth he was broadly learned, having a comprehensive command of many subjects. He frequently delivered lectures and composed commentaries on various sūtras, which contained profound principles. He recited the Lotus Sūtra for over fifty years. On the dawn of the twenty-seventh day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Tianbao under Emperor Ming of the Liang, he saw in a dream Samantabhadra Bodhisattva riding a white elephant, coming from the eastern direction. Holding a white object in his hand, he pointed it at Sengqian's crown. At that moment Sengqian knew it was Samantabhadra; in his heart he was startled and overjoyed, and could only recite with his mouth, 'Namo Samantabhadra Bodhisattva!' Before he could offer prostrations, he immediately awakened. Later it was not known where he ended his life.