法苑珠林 63.49

63.49

漢沙門竺曇蓋。秦郡人也。真確有苦行。提鉢振錫行化四輩。居于蔣山常行般舟。尤善神呪。多有應驗。司馬元顯甚敬奉之。衛將軍劉毅。聞其精苦。招來姑熟深相愛遇。義興五年大旱。陂湖竭涸苗稼焦枯祈祭山川累旬無應。毅乃請僧設齋。蓋亦在焉。齋畢躬乘露航浮泛川溪。文武士庶傾州悉行。蓋於中流燔香禮拜。至誠慷慨。乃讀海龍王經。造卷發音雲氣便起。轉讀將半沛澤四合。纔及釋軸洪雨滂注。畦湖必滿。其年以登劉敬。叔時為毅國郎中令。親豫此集。自所覩見。

The Han śramaṇa Zhu Tange was a man of Qin Commandery. Sincere and resolute, he engaged in ascetic practices, carrying his alms bowl and shaking his ringed staff to convert the fourfold assembly. Residing on Mount Jiang, he constantly practiced the pratyutpanna-samādhi and was exceptionally skilled in spiritual dhāraṇīs, with many verified responses. Sima Yuanxian deeply revered him. Liu Yi, General of the Guard, heard of his diligent asceticism and invited him to Gushu, treating him with great affection. In the fifth year of the Yixing era, there was a great drought: reservoirs and lakes dried up, the crops were parched, and sacrifices to the mountains and rivers for many ten-day periods brought no response. Yi then invited the saṃgha to hold a vegetarian feast, and Ge was also present. When the feast ended, Yi personally boarded an open boat to float along the rivers and streams, and the civil and military officials and commoners of the entire province all set out with him. In midstream, Ge burned incense and bowed in reverence, utterly sincere and fervent, and then recited the *Sūtra of the Dragon King of the Ocean*. Opening the scroll and giving voice, clouds immediately arose; before he had finished chanting half of it, torrential rain gathered from all four directions. Just as he rolled up the scroll, a deluge poured down, filling every field and lake. That year yielded a bumper harvest. Liu Jingshu, who was serving at that time as Master of the Gentlemen of the Palace in Yi's principality, personally took part in this gathering and witnessed it himself.