集神州三寶感通錄 2.24

2.24

20. In the fourteenth year of Yuanjia of the Song (437 CE), the family of Sun Yanzeng had revered the Buddha for generations. His concubine, Wang Huicheng, had possessed faith from an early age, which grew ever more earnest with age. While chanting the Lotus Sūtra, she would often see multicolored light in the bay. She had people dig two feet deep, and they obtained a golden image together with its halo and pedestal, two feet one inch in height. The pedestal inscription said: 'Made in the sixth year of Jianwu, the year being gengzi (304 CE), by the monks Faxin and Sengxing of Waguan Temple.' They then polished and burnished it.