三寶感應要略錄 2.46

2.46

帛遠字法祖。河內人也。乃於長安。造築精舍。以講習首楞嚴經為業時。有一人。姓李名通。死而更蘇云。見祖法師在閻羅王處。為王講首楞嚴經。無量罪人。聞師講聲。生第二天。自云。講竟應生忉利天。彼天等若聞此經。得不退功德矣。

Bo Yuan, styled Fazhu, was a man of Henai. In Chang'an, he built a vihāra and took lecturing on and practicing the Śūraṅgama-sūtra as his vocation. At that time, there was a man named Li Tong who died and revived, saying that he had seen Dharma Master Fazhu at King Yama's court, expounding the Śūraṅgama-sūtra for the king. Immeasurable numbers of sinners heard the Master's lecturing voice and were reborn in the second heaven. He himself said: "When the lecture is completed, I ought to be born in the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven. If those devas hear this sūtra, they will attain the merit of non-retrogression."