法華傳記 6.14

6.14

彭子喬者。益陽縣人也。任本郡主簿。事太子沈文龍。見執付獄。遂欲殺之。喬少曾出家末雖還俗。猶恒誦習觀世音經。時文龍必欲殺子喬。刺無復冀。唯至心誦經。得百有遍。既大疲極。暫得晝眠。同繫者有十許人。亦俱睡臥。有湘西縣吏杜道榮。亦繫在獄中。時如眠非眠。不甚得熟。因恍惚中。見有兩白鶴集子喬屏風上。須臾一鶴下。至子喬邊。時復覺如美麗人。形容至好。道榮心怪之。過起觀子喬覺。道榮問。向得夢不。子喬答曰不夢。道榮為說其所見。歡喜不可言。自還著械。不使人知。得四五日。遂非意放散。義安大義太原王琰。與果有舊。作冥祥記。道其族兄璉。親識子喬及道榮。聞二人說。皆同如此（法苑第二十七）。

Peng Ziqiao was a native of Yiyang County. He served as an administrative clerk in his home commandery, in service to the crown prince Shen Wenlong. He was arrested and cast into prison, and Wenlong then wished to execute him. In his youth, Ziqiao had once renounced household life; though he later returned to secular life, he still constantly recited and practiced the Avalokiteśvara Sūtra. At that time, Wenlong was determined to execute Ziqiao, and the magistrate held out no further hope. Ziqiao merely recited the sūtra with supreme sincerity, reaching over a hundred recitations. Being utterly exhausted, he took a brief nap during the day. There were about ten others imprisoned with him, and they too were all asleep. An official of Xiangxi County, Du Daorong, was also imprisoned there. At that time, in a half-sleeping, half-waking state, not sleeping very deeply, he suddenly saw in a daze two white cranes alight on Ziqiao's screen. After a moment, one crane flew down and came to Ziqiao's side; then he perceived it as a beautiful person, exceptionally fair in countenance. Daorong wondered at this in his heart. Getting up to look at Ziqiao, he found him awake. Daorong asked, "Did you just have a dream?" Ziqiao answered, "I did not dream." Daorong told him what he had seen, and Ziqiao was overjoyed beyond words. He put the fetters back on himself, letting no one know. After four or five days, he was unexpectedly released. Wang Yan of Taiyuan, Grand Master of Yian, was an old friend of [Xiao] Guo and composed the Mingxiang ji (Records of Miraculous Signs); he related that his elder cousin Lian personally knew Ziqiao and Daorong, and heard both men relate it, and their accounts agreed with this. (Fayuan [zhulin], fascicle 27).