法華傳記 5.52

5.52

道人釋僧洪者。住都下瓦官寺。作丈六金像。鎔鑄始畢。于時晉義熙十二年。大禁鑄銅。僧洪未得開模見像。便為官所收繫。在相府姦罪應入死。僧洪便誦法華觀世音經。得一月日。忽夢見其所作像。來至獄中。以手摩洪頭。問汝怖不。僧洪具以事答。像曰。無所憂也。夢中見像胸前。方一尺許。銅色燋沸。後遂至市見殺。爾日府參軍應監刑。初喚駕車。而牛絕不肯入。既入便奔車即粉碎。遂至瞑無監。更後剋日。因有勅。從彭城還道。若未殺僧洪者。可原既而出破模看像。果自胸前如夢。此像今尚在瓦官寺。當知誦力感聖也（高僧傳第十三）。

The man of the Way Shi Senghong resided at Waguan Monastery in the capital. He made a sixteen-foot golden image. Just as the casting had been completed—at that time, in the twelfth year of Yixi of the Jin dynasty, there was a strict ban on casting bronze—before Senghong could break open the mold to inspect the image, he was seized and bound by officials. In the Prime Minister's headquarters, his illicit crime was punishable by death. Senghong then chanted the Avalokiteśvara [Chapter of] the Lotus Sūtra. After a month had passed, he suddenly dreamed that the image he had made came into the prison, stroked Hong's head with its hand, and asked: "Are you afraid?" Senghong answered with the full circumstances. The image said: "Do not worry." In the dream, he saw that before the image's chest, an area of about one square foot was scorched and bubbling in bronze color. Later, he was eventually taken to the marketplace to be executed. On that day, the administrative assistant of the headquarters was to oversee the execution. When they first called for the carriage to be harnessed, the ox absolutely refused to step into the harness; once harnessed, it bolted and the carriage was smashed to pieces. Night fell without any overseer. When a later day was set, an imperial decree arrived from Pengcheng on the road: if Senghong had not yet been executed, he was to be pardoned. Subsequently, when they broke open the mold to look at the image, it was indeed scorched on its chest just as in the dream. This image is still in Waguan Monastery today. One should know that the power of chanting moves the holy ones. (Biographies of Eminent Monks, fascicle 13).