廣弘明集 17.23

17.23

In Xiang prefecture, a pagoda was erected at Daci Temple. The weather was overcast and snowy. As the relics were about to be lowered, the sun shone brightly; as soon as they entered the casket, the clouds gathered again. In the eighth month of the year after the pagoda was built, the convent of Guangtian obtained a copy of the auspicious signs illustration from Shan prefecture and placed it in the Buddha hall; miraculous lights flashed repeatedly like lightning. There was also a five-colored cloud canopy directly overlooking the hall, which appeared four times in a single day. There were also white clouds resembling groves of trees, from which rained golden flowers; two of the flowers were shaped like great butterflies, colored like blue lapis lazuli, hovering without descending, before soaring into the void and departing. In the first month of the following year, heavenly flowers rained down within the temple again.