三寶感應要略錄 2.64

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三藏法師義淨齊州人。姓張字文明志遊西域。所歷三十餘國。天后證聖元年。還至阿洛。天后受佛記敬法重。長安三年十月四日。於西明寺譯毘沙門婆崙。惠表惠治等筆受。同月十五日。即於西明寺而供養。即施百尺幡二口。四十九尺幡四十九口。絹百疋香花等供具。皆用七寶而為莊嚴。爾時紫雲蓋寺。經卷放光。大地微動。天雨細花。自非受佛記。誰後五百年中。得此感應矣。

Tripiṭaka Dharma Master Yijing was a man of Qizhou, surnamed Zhang and styled Wenming. He set his mind on traveling to the Western Regions and passed through more than thirty kingdoms. In the first year of the Zhengsheng reign era of the Heavenly Empress, he returned to the region of Luoyang. The Heavenly Empress, having received the Buddha's prediction, revered the Dharma profoundly. On the fourth day of the tenth month of the third year of the Chang'an reign era, he translated the Vaiśravaṇa-parivarta at Ximing Temple, with Huibiao, Huizhi, and others taking down the translation. On the fifteenth day of the same month, offerings were made at Ximing Temple. They donated two hundred-foot banners, forty-nine forty-nine-foot banners, one hundred bolts of silk, and offerings such as incense and flowers, all adorned with the seven jewels. At that time, purple clouds covered the temple, the sūtra scrolls emitted light, the great earth shook slightly, and the heavens rained down fine flowers. If she had not received the Buddha's prediction, who, in the final five hundred years, could have obtained such a sympathetic response?