法苑珠林 14.38

14.38

唐益州郭下法聚寺畫地藏菩薩。却坐繩床垂脚。高八九寸。本像是張僧繇畫。至麟德二年七月。當寺僧圖得一本。放光乍出乍沒。如似金環。大同本光。如是展轉圖寫出者類皆放光。當年八月勅追一本入宮供養。現今京城內外道俗畫者供養。並皆放光。信知佛力不可測量（家別一本不別引記）。

At Faju Temple in the suburban district of Yizhou under the Tang, there was a painting of Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, seated back upon a corded chair with his feet dangling down, eight or nine inches high. The original image had been painted by Zhang Sengyou. In the seventh month of the second year of Linde, a monk of this temple traced a copy. It emitted light that appeared and vanished abruptly like a golden ring, largely identical to the original light. Thus, whenever it was successively copied and produced, they all emitted light without exception. In the eighth month of that year, an edict ordered a copy brought into the palace for worship. At present, whether painted and worshipped by monastics or laypersons within or outside the capital, they all emit light. Truly one knows that the Buddha's power is unfathomable. (Each household has a copy; they are not cited separately here.)