三寶感應要略錄 3.13

3.13

張元通。信心貞固。發願造文殊像高三尺。安室內方供養。至夜三更。梵僧兩三。手執香爐。來至室內。遶像三匝。忽然不見。彌發信心供養香花。明日日西。像放光至五更。通夢見。十方諸佛來集室內。以妙花供養形像云。是我本師。以敬師故。我等供養。諸佛亦以妙瓔珞。供養元通。汝以信心。造我師像故來供養。通夢中白諸佛言。十方世界造文殊像。及能畫之者。諸佛皆向其處耶。佛言。十方世界。若有此事。我等皆供養之。何以故。我等發心。皆是文殊教化力。若有歸依文殊者。超過歸依十方諸佛。即說偈言。

Zhang Yuantong had a firm and steadfast faith. He vowed to make an image of Mañjuśrī three feet high. Placing it in his room, he made offerings to it. At the third watch of the night, two or three Indian monks holding censers in their hands came into the room, circumambulated the image three times, and suddenly disappeared. This aroused his faith all the more, and he offered fragrant flowers. The next day toward evening, the image emitted light until the fifth watch. Tong saw in a dream that the Buddhas of the ten directions gathered in the room and made offerings of wonderful flowers to the image, saying, 'This is our original teacher. Out of reverence for our teacher, we make offerings.' The Buddhas also took exquisite necklaces and offered them to Yuantong, [saying], 'Because you made an image of our teacher with faithful mind, we have come to make offerings.' In the dream, Tong addressed the Buddhas, saying, 'Wherever in the worlds of the ten directions one makes an image of Mañjuśrī or can paint one, do the Buddhas go to all those places?' A Buddha said, 'If such a thing happens in the worlds of the ten directions, we all make offerings there. Why is this? Our raising of the aspiration [for awakening] was all due to the power of Mañjuśrī’s teaching and conversion. If someone takes refuge in Mañjuśrī, that surpasses taking refuge in the Buddhas of the ten directions.' He then spoke a verse: