法華傳記 6.44

6.44

釋法道。誦觀音品為常業。更厭喧雜。入山遊行誦經。忽逢賊。且念賊遇釋子不祥。挽弓箭射之。欲放箭堅著弓。不能放射。賊遂歸命。投弓於地。又不能得如是神人等。捨而逃走。禪因脫難而已。

Śramaṇa Fadao took reciting the “Avalokiteśvara Chapter” as his constant practice. Growing even more averse to noisy clamor, he entered the mountains to wander and recite the sūtra. Suddenly encountering bandits, [the bandits,] thinking that meeting a Buddhist monk was inauspicious, drew their bows and arrows to shoot him. Intending to loose their arrows, [the arrows] stuck fast to the bows, and they were unable to shoot. The bandits thereupon submitted, threw their bows to the ground, and realizing that they could not match such a spiritual person, abandoned them and fled. Because of his meditation, he escaped calamity—that was all.