景德傳燈錄 1.111

1.111

The Twelfth Patriarch, the Mahāsattva Aśvaghoṣa, was a native of Vārāṇasī, also called Gongcheng (Merit Supreme). Because his fabricated and unfabricated merits were supreme above all, he was so named. Having received the Dharma from the Venerable Puṇyayaśas, he later turned the wonderful wheel of the Dharma in Pāṭaliputra. Suddenly, an old man fell to the ground before his seat. The Master said to the assembly, “This is no ordinary person; there will surely be an extraordinary sign.” When he finished speaking, the man vanished. Soon, a golden person leaped out from the ground, transformed into a woman, pointed her right hand at the Master, and spoke a verse: