集神州三寶感通錄 3.57

3.57

貞觀中。河東董雄為大理丞。少來信敬。蔬食十數年。十四年中。坐連李仙童事。上大怒。使侍御韋悰鞫問甚急。囚禁數十人大理丞李敬玄與王忻同連此坐。雄與同屋囚鎖。專念普門品。日得三千遍。夜坐誦經鎖忽自解落地。雄驚告忻玄。忻玄共視。鎖堅全在地。而鈎鎖相離數尺。即告守者。其夜監察御史張守一宿直。命吏開鎖火燭之。見鎖不開而相離甚怪。又重鎖紙封書上而去。雄如常誦經五更中鎖又解落有聲。雄又告忻玄等。至明告守一。守一來視之。封題如故。而鎖自相離。敬玄素不信佛法。其妻讀經。常謂曰。何為胡神所媚而讀此書耶及見雄此事。乃深悟不信之咎。方知佛為大聖也。時忻亦誦八菩薩名。滿三萬遍。晝鎖解落。視之如雄不異。其事臺中內外具皆聞見。不久俱脫云云。

During the Zhenguan era, Dong Xiong of Hedong served as Assistant of the Court of Judicial Review. Having had faith and reverence since his youth, he had eaten a vegetarian diet for over ten years. In the fourteenth year, he was implicated in the affair of Li Xiantong. The Emperor was greatly enraged and dispatched Attendant Censor Wei Cong to conduct a very strict interrogation; several tens of people were imprisoned, with Li Jingxuan, Assistant of the Court of Judicial Review, and Wang Xin both implicated along with him. Confined in the same room and bound with chains, Xiong focused his mind on the Universal Gate Chapter, completing three thousand recitations a day. As he sat reciting the sūtra at night, the lock suddenly opened by itself and fell to the ground. Startled, Xiong informed Xin and Xuan; Xin and Xuan inspected it together: the lock lay whole and intact on the ground, but its hook and body were separated by several feet. They immediately informed the guards. That night, Investigating Censor Zhang Shouyi was on night duty; he ordered the officers to examine the lock with a torch and found it astonishing that the lock was not broken open yet was separated. He locked it again, sealed it with paper, signed it, and departed. Xiong recited the sūtra as usual; around the fifth watch, the lock opened and fell again with a sound. Xiong again informed Xin, Xuan, and the others, and at dawn they informed Shouyi. Shouyi came to inspect it: the paper seal and signature were as before, but the lock had separated of its own accord. Jingxuan had never believed in the Buddha's Dharma, and when his wife read the sūtras, he would often say to her: 'Why are you bewitched by barbarian gods and read such books?' Upon witnessing this event of Xiong's, he profoundly realized the error of his disbelief and only then knew that the Buddha is a Great Sage. At that time, Xin also recited the names of the eight bodhisattvas, completing thirty thousand recitations, and in broad daylight his lock opened and fell, looking no different from Xiong's. All inside and outside the Censorate heard and saw these matters, and before long they were all released, and so forth.