三寶感應要略錄 2.64

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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?