法苑珠林 18.10

18.10

晉謝敷字慶緒。會稽山陰人也。鎮軍將軍輶之兄子也。少有高操隱于東山。篤信大法精勤不勌。手寫首楞嚴經。當在都白馬寺中。寺為災所延。什物餘經並成煨燼。而此經正燒紙頭界外而已。文字悉存無所毀失。敷死時友人疑其得道。及聞此經彌復驚異。至元嘉八年。河東蒲阪城中大災火。火自河飛至不可救滅。虜戍民居無不盪盡。唯精舍塔寺並得不焚。里中小屋有經像者。亦多不燒。或屋雖焚毀。而於煨燼之下。時得全經。紙素如故。一城歎異相率敬信（右此五驗出冥祥記）。

Xie Fu of the Jin, styled Qingxu, was a native of Shanyin in Kuaiji. He was the nephew of Army-Guarding General Xie You. In his youth he possessed lofty integrity and lived as a recluse in the Eastern Mountains. Devoutly faithful to the Great Dharma, he was energetic and tireless. He copied the Śūraṅgama-sūtra by hand. When it was kept in Baima Temple in the capital, the temple was caught in a fire; utensils and other scriptures were all reduced to ash and embers, but this scripture was scorched only outside the margins of the paper. The text was entirely preserved without any destruction or loss. When Fu died, his friends suspected he had attained the Way, and upon hearing of this scripture, they were even more astonished. In the eighth year of the Yuanjia era (431 CE), a great fire disaster occurred in Puban City of Hedong; the fire flew in across the river and could not be extinguished. The barbarian garrisons and civilian residences were completely consumed, yet only the monasteries and stupa temples escaped burning. Among the small houses in the wards, those that had scriptures and images mostly did not burn either. Or, even if a house was burned and destroyed, beneath the ash and embers, complete scriptures were frequently recovered, their paper and silk unchanged. The entire city marveled at the anomaly, and together came to revere and believe. (These five verifications are taken from the Mingxiangji.)