法苑珠林 14.28

14.28

唐渝州西百里相思寺北石山有佛跡十二枚。皆長三尺許。闊一尺一寸。深九寸。中有魚文。在佛堂北。十餘步見。有僧住。至貞觀二十年十月。忽寺側泉內出蓮華。形如紅色鬚臺具足。大如三尺。面合擎出如涕。入水成華。舟旅往還無不歎訝。經月不滅。相思寺因以得名。一云涪州。亦有此寺。寺本貧煎。由是感施至今常富。昔齊荊州城東天子井出錦。于時士女取用如人錦不異。經月乃歇。故知於出不足可怪（見吳均齊春秋蕭誠荊南志說）。

A hundred li west of Yuzhou in the Tang dynasty, on the rocky mountain north of Xiangsi Temple, there are twelve footprints of the Buddha. All are about three feet long, one foot one inch wide, and nine inches deep, with fish patterns in their centers. They are seen more than ten paces north of the Buddha hall, where monks reside. In the tenth month of the twentieth year of the Zhenguan reign era, suddenly lotus flowers emerged from the spring beside the temple. Their form was red, complete with stamens and calyxes, and as large as three feet across. When lifted out face-down, they were like mucous, but upon entering the water they formed flowers. Travelers on boats coming and going were all amazed. They did not disappear for a whole month. Xiangsi Temple gained its name from this. Another account says there is also such a temple in Fuzhou. The temple was originally impoverished, but because of this sympathetic resonance that drew offerings, it has remained prosperous ever since. Formerly, during the Qi dynasty, the Son of Heaven's Well east of the city wall of Jingzhou produced brocade; at that time men and women took and used it, no different from human-woven brocade, and it only ceased after a month. Thus we know that such emergences are not truly strange (as recounted in Wu Jun’s Qi chunqiu and Xiao Cheng’s Jingnan zhi).