廣弘明集 15.139

15.139

隋時蔣州興皇寺佛殿被焚。中丈六銅像正當棟下。及火發棟墜。像自移南五六尺許。形得安全。四面瓦土灰炭。去像五六尺。曾不塵玷。今在白馬寺鳥雀所不侵凌。

During the Sui dynasty, the Buddha hall of Xinghuang Temple in Jiangzhou was burned down. A sixteen-foot bronze image inside stood directly beneath the ridgepole. When the fire broke out and the ridgepole crashed down, the image moved south by five or six feet on its own, so that its form was kept completely safe. All around, tiles, earth, ash, and charcoal lay five or six feet away from the image, without dirtying or staining it at all. It is now at Baima Temple, where neither birds nor sparrows disturb it.