三寶感應要略錄 2.66

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梓州郪縣人姚待。以長安四年丁憂。發願為亡親。自寫四大部經。法華維摩各一部。藥師經十卷。金剛般若經一百卷。日午時有一鹿。突門而入。立經案前。舉頭舐案。家狗見不敢輒吠。姚待下床抱得。亦不驚懼。為受三歸。跳躑屈脚。放而不去。又有屠兒李迴奴者。來立案前。取般若經而馳去。一去之後。不復再見。莫知所之（是時隣家夢。鹿是待母。屠兒待父。各依業故受異身。待自為寫。故來受其化而已）。

Yao Dai, a native of Qi County in Zizhou, went into mourning for his parents in the fourth year of the Chang'an reign era. He made a vow for his deceased parents to copy four great sūtras himself: one copy each of the Lotus and Vimalakīrti, ten fascicles of the Bhaiṣajyaguru-sūtra, and one hundred fascicles of the Diamond Prajñā-sūtra. At midday, a deer rushed through the door and came in, standing before the sūtra desk, raising its head to lick the desk. When the house dog saw it, it did not dare to bark. Yao Dai stepped down from his seat and caught it in his embrace; it showed no fear. He administered the Three Refuges to it; it leaped and bent its legs, and when released, it would not leave. There was also a butcher boy named Li Huinu who came and stood before the desk, grabbed a Prajñā-sūtra, and ran away. After he departed, he was never seen again, and no one knew where he went. (At that time, a neighbor dreamed that the deer was Dai's mother and the butcher was Dai's father, each receiving different bodies in accordance with their karma; because Dai copied sūtras for them himself, they came to receive his transformative deliverance, nothing else.)