法華傳記 7.60

7.60

釋義徹。住蒲州孤介山陷泉寺。發願以身血寫經。埋孤介山陽。期後佛出世。鳥獸不踏其地。又思惟事經卷風雨濕朽之。即向虛空。發願書經。當於此空。霜雨不降。鳥獸不飛。若人淨信祈念。彼空十餘丈中。見法華文。宛然如鉤鎖。其地親所見聞也。

Shi Yiche lived at Xianquan Monastery on Mount Gujie in Puzhou. He made a vow to copy sūtras with his own blood and bury them on the south side of Mount Gujie, awaiting the appearance of a future Buddha in the world, where birds and beasts would not tread upon the ground. Furthermore, he considered that material sūtra scrolls would be dampened and decayed by wind and rain, so he faced empty space and vowed to write the sūtras there: in this space, frost and rain would not fall, and birds and beasts would not fly. If people pray and contemplate with pure faith, within more than ten fathoms of that space, they can see the text of the Lotus Sūtra, clearly appearing like interlocking chain links. This was witnessed personally in that place.