廣弘明集 8.61

8.61

Some falsely claim it to be the true Way: (The Records of Shu says: 'Zhang Ling entered Heming Mountain and called himself Celestial Master. At the end of the Jiaping era of the Han, he was swallowed by a python. His son Heng ran out to search but found nothing. Fearing the censure of public opinion, he fabricated provisional methods to manifest traces of miraculous transformation, binding the legs of a living crane and placing it on a cliff top. In the first year of the Guanghe era, he sent envoys to proclaim: "On the seventh day of the first month, the Celestial Master ascended to the Dark Capital." The Rice People and mountain barbarians consequently spread this falsehood, trading on death to profit life; no rebellion is worse than this.')