廣弘明集 17.111

17.111

四月八日午時欲下舍利。于時道俗悲號。四方忽然一時雲起。如煙如霧。漸次向上至於日所。即遶日變成一暈。猶如車輪。內別有白雲團圓翳日。日光漸即微闇如小盞許。在輪外周匝。次第以雲為輻。其輪及輻並作紅紫色。至下舍利訖。其雲散滅日光還即明淨。復於塔院西北牆外。大有自然幡蓋。亦有見幡蓋圍遶舍利者。當時謂有人捉幡供養。至下舍利訖其幡蓋等忽即不見。于時道俗見者不少。至戌時司馬張備等。見塔上有青雲氣從塔內而出。其雲甚香。即喚使人文林郎韋範大興寺潧曇暢入裏就看。備共韋範等並見流光向西北東南二處流行。須臾即滅。

At midday on the eighth day of the fourth month, as the relics were about to be interred, monastics and laypeople wailed with sorrow. Suddenly, clouds arose all at once from the four directions like smoke and mist, gradually ascending towards the sun, circling the sun to form a halo like a carriage wheel. Inside was a separate, round white cloud veiling the sun; the sunlight gradually dimmed to the size of a small cup, while outside the wheel all around, the clouds formed spokes in succession. Both the wheel and the spokes were of a reddish-purple colour. When the interment of the relics was complete, the clouds scattered and disappeared, and the sunlight once again became clear and bright. Furthermore, outside the northwest wall of the pagoda compound, there were numerous natural banners and canopies, and some also saw banners and canopies surrounding the relics. At the time, people thought someone was holding banners to make offerings, but when the interment of the relics was complete, these banners and canopies suddenly disappeared. At that time, many monastics and laypeople saw this. By the xu hour, Sima Zhang Bei and others saw a cyan cloud vapour above the pagoda emerging from within it. The cloud was extremely fragrant. He immediately called the envoy, Gentleman of the Forest of Literature Wei Fan, and Tan Chang of Daxing Temple to go inside and inspect it. Zhang Bei, Wei Fan, and the others all saw streaming light flowing towards the northwest and southeast, vanishing after a short moment.