法苑珠林 39.19

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漢平等寺。廣平武穆王壞舍宅所立也。寺門外有金像一軀。高二丈八尺。相好端嚴。常有神驗。國之吉凶先炳祥異。孝昌三年十二月。此像面有悲容垂淚遍體皆濕。時人號曰佛汗。京師士女空市而觀。有一比丘。以淨綿拭其淚。須臾之間綿濕都盡。更以他綿換拭。俄然復濕。如此三日乃止。至明年四月。爾朱榮入雒陽誅戮百官。死亡塗地。至永安二年三月。此像復汗。京邑仕庶復往觀視。五月北海入雒。莊帝北巡。七月北海大敗。所將江淮子弟五千餘人。盡被俘虜無一得還。永安三年七月。此像悲泣復如初汗。每經神驗朝野惶懼。禁人不聽觀視。至十二月爾朱兆入雒擒莊帝。帝崩於晉陽。宮殿空虛百日無主。唯尚書令司州牧樂平王爾朱世隆鎮京師。商旅四通盜賊不作。

Pingdeng Temple of the Han was established by King Wumu of Guangping upon demolishing his private residence. Outside the temple gate stood a golden image twenty-eight feet high, endowed with dignified and majestic primary and secondary bodily marks, which frequently displayed divine verifications. The fortunes and misfortunes of the state were made manifest beforehand through its wondrous portents. In the twelfth month of the third year of the Xiaochang era, a look of sorrow appeared on the face of this image, and tears flowed down so that its entire body became wet; the people of that time called it 'the sweating of the Buddha.' Men and women from the capital emptied the markets to come and view it. There was a monk who wiped its tears with clean cotton floss; in an instant, the cotton floss was completely soaked through. He replaced it with other cotton floss to wipe again, and in a moment it became wet once more; this ceased only after three days. By the fourth month of the following year, Erzhu Rong entered Luoyang and slaughtered the hundred officials, so that the dead littered the ground. In the third month of the second year of the Yong'an era, this image sweated again, and the officials and commoners of the capital went once more to view it. In the fifth month, the Prince of Beihai entered Luoyang, and Emperor Zhuang fled north on an imperial inspection tour. In the seventh month, Beihai suffered a great defeat, and the more than five thousand men from the regions of the Yangzi and Huai Rivers whom he commanded were all captured, not a single one managing to return. In the seventh month of the third year of the Yong'an era, this image wept sorrowfully just as when it had first sweated. Every time it underwent a divine verification, the court and the countryside were terrified, and people were forbidden from being allowed to view it. By the twelfth month, Erzhu Zhao entered Luoyang and captured Emperor Zhuang; the Emperor died in Jinyang. The palaces were left vacant, and for a hundred days there was no sovereign; only Erzhu Shilong, the Prince of Leping, who was Prefect of the Masters of Writing and Governor of Sizhou, guarded the capital. Merchants traveled in all directions, and bandits did not arise.