辯偽錄 2.3

2.3

The thirtieth transformation states: The barbarian king saw that the Supreme Venerable's followers were very numerous and suspected that they were ghosts and specters. He thereupon piled up firewood to burn them. The fire flared up, shooting into the sky, and Laozi emitted bodily radiance, expounding the Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra (Golden Light Sūtra) to the king from within the fire. The barbarian king grew even angrier, put him into a great cauldron, and boiled him for three days. From within the boiling cauldron, lotus flowers welled up, and sitting upon a lotus flower, Laozi preached the Nirvāṇa Sūtra. It also says: Laozi made Yin Xi a Buddha to serve as a teacher to the barbarian king, to repent the three karmas, the six sense faculties, the five heinous sins, and the ten unwholesome deeds; he then expounded the five precepts, the ten virtues, and the Sūtra of Forty-Two Chapters.