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During the Zhenguan era, he served as Assistant in the Court of Judicial Review. In the spring of the fourteenth year, he was implicated in the affair of the prefect Li Xiantong and detained in the Censorate. At that time, the Emperor took them to be a faction, was greatly enraged, and dispatched Assistant Censor Wei Cong and others to interrogate them. The security and restriction were suddenly extremely tight; over a dozen people were held in custody. Li Jingxuan, Assistant in the Court of Judicial Review, and Wang Xin, Judicial Investigator, were both implicated in this same offense and imprisoned in the same room with Xiong, all bound firmly with shackles. Xiong single-mindedly chanted the "Universal Gate Chapter" of the Lotus Sūtra, completing three thousand recitations in several days. Sitting alone at night chanting the sūtra, the shackles suddenly released themselves and fell to the ground. In astonishment, Xiong informed Xin and Xuan. Xin and Xuan together looked at the lock: it was still closed as normal on the ground, and its hook was also intact and undamaged, yet the hook and the lock were several feet apart. Xuan and the others marveled at it. Fearing blame and punishment, Xiong reported to the guard and requested to unlock and re-lock it. That night, Investigating Censor Zhang Shouyi, who was on night watch, ordered it unlocked again. The official illuminated it with a torch and saw that the lock was not open, yet they were naturally separated, which was extremely uncanny. He then unlocked and locked it again, wrapped and sealed the lock with paper, wrote his signature on the seal, and left. Later, during the fifth watch while Xiong was sitting and chanting the sūtra, the lock again released and fell, making a sound as if someone had opened it. Frightened, Xiong informed Xin and Xuan again. Xin, Xuan, and the others thought that since dawn was approaching, it was not suitable to summon the official. Once it became bright, they looked at it together: the hook and lock were separated on the ground, yet the lock was still closed. The place where it was sealed and signed was completely firm and undisturbed, and the hook was intact and secure with no way to open it. From youth to adulthood, Jingxuan had never believed in the Buddha-Dharma. Seeing his wife read sūtras, he would often say to her: "Why are you bewitched by foreign deities and read these books?" When he saw this incident of Xiong's, he sighed in deep awakening, saying: "Only now do I know that the Buddha is a Great Sage without peer, truly inconceivable." At that time, Xin also chanted the names of the eight bodhisattvas; when he completed thirty thousand recitations, in broad daylight his lock released and fell by itself. Looking at it, the lock was pulled open and lay on the ground. Xiong did not find it strange. Thereupon Xuan was convinced and felt deep remorse. Soon after, all three men received miraculous deliverance. Xuan then copied the Lotus Sūtra, painted images of the eight bodhisattvas, took refuge in them, and made offerings. At that time, \[one official\] was gravely ill at home; before Xuan inquired after his illness, he related the incident in full. When the official recovered and resumed his post, he inquired of the officials in the Censorate, and it did not differ from Xuan's account. Xiong also related the matter himself, and his diligent vigor grew ever more earnest. Xiong is currently alive and serves as the Magistrate of Zhouzhi. (Gantong lu, lower fascicle). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.5) - [Next: 6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.7) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068~en-mt.6.6) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [集神州三寶感通錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.3.57) — 道宣, Classical Chinese - [冥報記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.2.14) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.6) · Pramāṇa