三寶感應要略錄 2.13

2.13

京師人。姓王失其名（余記名定藏也）既無戒行。曾不修善。文明元年。因患致死。二人引至地獄門。王氏本事地藏菩薩。見有一僧云。是地藏菩薩。乃教王氏誦一行偈。其文曰。若人欲了知三世一切佛。應當如是觀。心造諸如來。菩薩曰。誦得此能排地獄。王氏盡誦。遂入見閻羅王。王問此人。有何功德。答云。唯受持一四句偈。具如上記。王遂放免王氏。當誦此偈時。聲所及受苦之人。皆得解脫。王氏三日。蘇向諸沙門說而已（所言一偈者。花嚴第十二卷夜摩天宮無量諸菩薩雲集說法品文也云云）。

A man of the capital surnamed Wang, whose given name is lost (another record gives his name as Dingzang), had no practice of the precepts and had never cultivated good. In the first year of the Wenming era [684], he died due to an illness. Two men led him to the gate of hell. Wang originally served Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha, and he saw a monk who said he was Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha. He then taught Wang to recite a one-line verse, the text of which ran: / 'If one wishes to fully know / all the Buddhas of the three times, / one should contemplate thus: / mind creates all the Tathāgatas.' / The bodhisattva said: 'Being able to recite this can overturn hell.' Wang recited it completely, and thereupon entered to see King Yama. The king asked, 'What merit does this person possess?' The reply was, 'He upholds only a single four-line verse, fully as recorded above.' The king then pardoned and released Wang. When he recited this verse, all those undergoing suffering within reach of his voice gained liberation. Wang revived after three days and merely told this to the various śramaṇas (the so-called single verse is the text from the chapter on the clouds of immeasurable bodhisattvas gathering to preach the Dharma in the Yama Heavenly Palace, in the twelfth fascicle of the Avataṃsaka).