三寶感應要略錄 2.124

2.124

In the autumn of the first year of the Yongtai era of Emperor Daizong, there was no rain throughout the realm, and everything was withered and parched. On the twenty-third day of the eighth month, Daizong issued an edict inviting one hundred Dharma masters to the two monasteries of Zisheng and Ximing to lecture on the newly translated Renwang bore jing, appointing the Tripiṭaka Dharma Master Amoghavajra as chief lecturer. When it came to the first day of the ninth month, dark clouds towered in the sky, and sweet rain descended. The entire realm received the moisture of rain; the parched and dead grasses and trees suddenly became flourishing and lush. The awe-inspiring spiritual power of the Renwang bore is inconceivable. Furthermore, when the Qiang and Hu invaded the borders and the capital, and also on account of stellar anomalies, two fascicles of the Renwang jing were brought out from the palace and a hundred-seat Renwang bodhimaṇḍa was opened; in all cases there were sympathetic responses.