三寶感應要略錄 3.17

3.17

宋路照大后。大明四年。造普賢菩薩。乘寶輿白象。安中興禪房。因說講于寺。其年十月八日。齊畢解坐會。僧二百人。于時寺宇始講。帝甚留心贊蹕臨幸。句必致四。僧從對勅。禁衛嚴肅。爾日僧名有定熟摩久之。忽有一僧。豫于座次。風毘秀舉。□堂驚矚。齊主與語。往還百餘之。忽不復見。列莚同覩。識其神人矣。

In the fourth year of Daming, Grand Empress Lu Zhao of the Song made an image of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva riding a jewelled carriage on a white elephant, and installed it in the meditation hall of Zhongxing [Monastery]. A lecture was accordingly given at the monastery. On the eighth day of the tenth month of that year, when the vegetarian feast was concluded and the assembly dismissed, there were two hundred monks. At that time lectures were just beginning at the monastery. The emperor was extremely attentive, ordering the clearing of the streets for his imperial visit. Every stanza must bring forth four [lines]. Monks answered the imperial decree; the imperial guard was strict and solemn. On that day, the monks’ names had been fixed for a long time. Suddenly a monk was in the row of seats; his bearing was extraordinarily outstanding. The whole hall gazed with astonishment. The host of the vegetarian feast spoke with him, conversing back and forth more than a hundred times, and suddenly he was seen no more. All in the rows of seats witnessed it, and recognized him as a divine person.