三寶感應要略錄 2.124

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代宗皇帝永泰元年秋。天下無雨枯渴。代宗以八月二十三日。詔於資坐西明兩寺。請百法師。講新翻仁王般若經。以三藏法師不空為都講。至于九月一日。黑雲聳空。甘露雨降。天下得潤雨澤。枯死草木。頓成榮茂。仁王般若威神不可思議。又羌胡寇邊京城又因星變。內出仁王經二卷。開百座仁王道場。皆有感應矣。

In the autumn of the first year of the Yongtai era of Emperor Daizong, there was no rain throughout the realm, and everything was withered and parched. On the twenty-third day of the eighth month, Daizong issued an edict inviting one hundred Dharma masters to the two monasteries of Zisheng and Ximing to lecture on the newly translated Renwang bore jing, appointing the Tripiṭaka Dharma Master Amoghavajra as chief lecturer. When it came to the first day of the ninth month, dark clouds towered in the sky, and sweet rain descended. The entire realm received the moisture of rain; the parched and dead grasses and trees suddenly became flourishing and lush. The awe-inspiring spiritual power of the Renwang bore is inconceivable. Furthermore, when the Qiang and Hu invaded the borders and the capital, and also on account of stellar anomalies, two fascicles of the Renwang jing were brought out from the palace and a hundred-seat Renwang bodhimaṇḍa was opened; in all cases there were sympathetic responses.