廣弘明集 15.126

15.126

襄州檀溪寺金像行者。東晉寧康中。沙門釋道安之所造也。及成就已乃行至萬山。明迎返寺。其夕又出至寺門。至山蹋石現一足相。周武滅法。鎮副長孫哲。志性兇麁先欲除毀。令百人以索繫頸挽之不動。哲大怒。乃至加五百人方倒。振地。哲喜落馬尋卒。當毀像時。於腋下倒垂衣內銘云。此像三周甲午當滅。勘以長曆。大略符焉。其所蹈石在本寺。今名啟法是也。

Regarding the walking golden image of Tanxi Temple in Xiangzhou: in the Ningkang reign era of the Eastern Jin, it was made by the monk Shi Dao'an. When it was completed, it walked to Mount Wan. The next morning, it was welcomed back to the temple. That night, it went out again to the temple gate; when it reached the mountain, it stepped on a rock, leaving the mark of a single footprint. When Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou abolished the Dharma, the deputy garrison commander Changsun Zhe, who was coarse and violent by nature, wished to destroy it first. He ordered one hundred men to bind its neck with ropes and pull it, but it did not move. Zhe was furious; only after adding five hundred men did it topple over, shaking the ground. Zhe rejoiced, but fell from his horse and died shortly afterward. At the time the image was being destroyed, an inscription was found inside its downward-hanging robes under the armpit, stating: 'This image shall be destroyed in the third Jiawu year.' When checked against the grand calendar, it largely corresponded. The rock on which it stepped is at the original temple, which is now named Qifa Temple.