集神州三寶感通錄 2.29

2.29

25. During the Jianyuan era of the Qi (479–482 CE), the Vaiśālī Monastery in Panyu formerly possessed a stone image from the country of Funan. None knew its origins. Its shape was very extraordinary, and it took seventy or eighty people to lift and carry it. The thatched roofs of this temple caught fire, which spread; the building was downwind, and the smoke and flames had already reached it. More than ten nuns looked at one another at a loss. Among them, some whose resolve would not cease tried with three or four others to lift it. It rose up lightly, without weighing anything like [the usual] thousands of catties. Once the image was out, the building burned down. Whenever there was divine light or bandits and soldiers in the commanderies of the province, sweat and tears would cover its entire body. In Lingnan, this was taken as a constant prognostic sign. Later, Liu Quan, the Inspector of Guangzhou, submitted a memorial to send it to the capital; it should now be in a temple of the former Jiangzhou.