集神州三寶感通錄 1.7

1.7

In the nineteenth year of the Zhenguan reign era, Dharma Master Min, who was enlightened in the Path at the Cave of Yu, toured the sacred traces. Deeply moved in spirit, he led hundreds of disciples to the temple for a month, giving lectures on the sūtras and treatises, where both gentlemen and commoners gathered. During the night, someone saw more than a hundred Indian monks circumambulating the stūpa and practicing the Path. When he reported this to the assembly, the temple monks said: "This happens constantly and is nothing to wonder at. From antiquity to the present, on the four great auspicious days, people from far and near come to the temple to hold vegetarian feasts and cultivate merit. And in the middle of the night, one constantly witnesses Indian monks practicing the Path, reciting sūtras, singing praises, and the like."