集神州三寶感通錄 3.25

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Furthermore, the Śramaṇa Shi Shengsheng of the Shu Commandery became a monastic with ascetic practices as his primary cause. He served as abbot of Sanxian Temple in Shu, reciting the *Lotus Sūtra* and practicing dhyāna. Once, while reciting the scripture in the mountains, a tiger crouched before him, leaving only when the text was completed. Whenever he chanted and recited, he would constantly see four persons flanking him as attendants. Though advanced in years and frail, he was all the more diligent and zealous, and thus concluded his career, and so on.