集神州三寶感通錄 2.6

2.6

三西晉愍帝。建興元年。吳郡婁縣松江滬瀆口漁者萃焉。遙見海中有二人現浮遊水上。漁人疑為海神。延巫祝備牲牢以迎之。風濤彌盛駭懼而返。復有奉五斗米道黃老之徒曰。斯天師也。復共往接。風浪如初。有奉佛居士。吳縣華里朱膺。聞之歎曰。將非大覺之垂降乎。乃潔齋共東雲寺帛尼及信佛者數人至瀆口。稽首延之風波遂靜。浮江二人隨潮入浦。漸近漸明。乃知石像。將欲捧接。人力未展。聊試擎之。飄然而起。便舉還通玄寺。看像背銘。一名惟衛。二名迦葉。莫測帝代。而字迹分明。舉高七尺。施設法座。欲安二像。人雖數十而了不可動。復重啟請欻然得起。以事表聞。朝庭士庶歸心者十室而九。沙門釋法淵來自西域。稱經記東方有二石像。及阿育王塔有供養禮覲者。除積劫罪云。又別傳云。天竺沙門一十二人送像至郡。像乃立水上不沒不行。以狀奏聞。下勅聽留吳郡（見高僧傳及旌異記等）今京邑咸陽長公主聞斯瑞迹。故遣人往通玄寺圖之。在京起模方欲顯相云。

3. In the first year of the Jianxing era under Emperor Min of the Western Jin, fishermen gathered at the mouth of Hudu on the Songjiang River in Lou County, Wu Commandery. Looking out into the distance, they saw two men floating on the waters in the sea. The fishermen suspected them to be sea deities and invited shamans and priests, preparing sacrificial animals to welcome them. The wind and waves surged even more violently, so they retreated in terror. Then there were followers of Huang-Lao who practiced the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice, who said, "These are Celestial Masters!" Together they went again to receive them, but the wind and waves remained as before. There was a Buddhist lay devotee, Zhu Ying of Huali in Wu County. Hearing of this, he sighed and said, "Could this not be the Great Awakened One condescending to descend?" He thereupon undertook pure fasting and, together with the nun Bo of Dongyun Temple and several faithful Buddhists, proceeded to the mouth of the waterway. They bowed their heads and invited them; thereupon the wind and waves grew calm. The two men floating on the river followed the tide into the inlet. As they drew nearer, they became clearer, and it was discovered that they were stone images. Just as the people were about to lift and receive them, human strength proved insufficient. Then, merely attempting to raise them lightly, the statues rose briskly into the air. They were immediately carried back to Tongxuan Temple. Looking at the inscriptions on the backs of the images, one was named Vipasyin and the other was named Kāśyapa. The imperial reign eras could not be determined, but the writing was distinct. Raised up, they were seven feet high. When dharma thrones were prepared with the intention of installing the two images, though there were several dozen men, they could not be moved at all. After supplicating and praying again, they suddenly were able to be lifted. When the matter was reported to the court, nine out of ten households among the court officials and commoners turned their hearts [to the Dharma]. The śramaṇa Śākya Fayuan came from the Western Regions and stated that sutras record that in the east there are two stone images and a King Aśoka stūpa, and that whoever makes offerings and bows to them will eliminate the transgressions accumulated over eons. Another biography also states that twelve Indian monks escorted the images to the commandery, and the images then stood upon the water, neither sinking nor proceeding. The situation was memorialized to the throne, and an imperial decree granted permission to keep them in Wu Commandery (see the Gaoseng zhuan, Jingyi ji, and other works). Recently, the Senior Princess of Xianyang in the capital heard of these miraculous traces and specially sent people to Tongxuan Temple to make drawings of them, making molds in the capital with the intention of fashioning images.