集神州三寶感通錄 2.45

2.45

41. At Sanxueshan Temple in Jianzhou, Shuchuan, under the Tang, there are Buddha footprints. Miraculous lamps constantly arrive from the sky, regularly doing so every evening, and even more on fast days. A prefect wished to search for them and rode his horse to the temple; beyond ten li, the sky-lamps appeared in a row, but as he gradually approached, they grew increasingly dim until all vanished. When he turned back ten li, he saw them again as before. Down to the present, they have not ceased. In the tenth year of the Zhenguan reign, there was a monk named Fazang who set his mind on begging and did not observe the minor precepts. Sleeping at night in the temple, a great spirit clad in armor pulled Fazang out through a crack in the door and threw him seven li outside the temple. Having injured his foot, he returned to the temple at night, but the layered doors were all shut.