法苑珠林 14.32

14.32

唐并州城西有山寺。寺名童子。有大像。坐高一百七十餘尺。皇帝崇敬釋教。顯慶末年巡幸并州。共皇后親到此寺。及幸北谷開化寺。大像高二百尺。禮敬瞻覩嗟歎希奇。大捨珍寶財物衣服。并諸妃嬪內宮之人。並各捐捨。并勅州官長吏竇軌等。令速莊嚴備飾聖容。并託龕前地務令寬廣。還京之日至龍朔二年秋七月。內官出袈裟兩領遣中使馳送二寺大像。其童子寺像披袈裟日。從旦至暮放五色光。流照崖巖洞燭山川。又入南龕小佛赫奕堂殿。道俗瞻覩數千萬眾。城中貴賤覩此而遷善者。十室而七八焉。眾人共知不言可悉。

West of the city wall of Bingzhou in the Tang dynasty, there was a mountain temple named Tongzi Temple. It had a great statue with a seated height of over one hundred and seventy feet. The Emperor revered the teachings of Śākya. In the late years of the Xianqing reign era, he toured Bingzhou and visited this temple in person together with the Empress. They also visited Kaihua Temple in the northern valley, which had a great statue two hundred feet tall. They paid reverence, gazed upon them, and marveled at their rarity. They generously donated treasures, wealth, and clothing, and the consorts and inner palace ladies all made donations as well. An imperial decree was also issued to Dou Gui and other prefectural officials ordering them to swiftly adorn and fully ornament the sacred visages, and entrusting them to make the ground before the shrines spacious. When they returned to the capital, in the seventh month of autumn in the second year of the Longshuo reign era, palace officials brought out two kāṣāyas, and imperial envoys were dispatched to rush them to the great statues of the two temples. On the day the statue of Tongzi Temple was draped in the kāṣāya, from dawn to dusk it emitted five-colored light that illuminated the cliffs and crags and lit up the mountains and rivers; it also entered the small Buddhas of the southern shrine, gloriously illuminating the halls and chambers. Clergy and laity gazing upon it numbered tens of millions. Among high and low in the city who turned toward goodness upon seeing this, seven or eight out of ten households did so. It is known to all and need not be elaborated.