法苑珠林 63.61

63.61

唐釋空藏者。至貞觀年住京師會昌寺。誦經三百餘卷。說化為業。游涼川原。有緣斯赴。昔往藍田負兒山。所誦經齎麫六升。擬為月調。乃經三周日噉二升。猶不得盡。又感神鼎不知何來。時至玉泉寺。以為終焉之地。時經亢旱泉竭苗焦。合寺將散。藏乃至心祈請。泉即應時涌溢。天雨滂沛。道俗動色。驚嗟不已。至貞觀十六年。終於會昌。還葬山所。

Under the Tang, the Śramaṇa Kongzang resided at Huichang Temple in the capital during the Zhenguan reign-period. He recited more than three hundred fascicles of sūtras and took preaching and converting as his vocation. He traveled through Liangzhou, the rivers, and plains, responding wherever there was a karmic affinity. Formerly, when he went to Mount Fu'er in Lantian, he recited sūtras and brought along six sheng of flour, intending it as a month's provision; yet after three full weeks, eating two sheng each day, it still could not be exhausted. He also moved a divine cauldron, not knowing where it came from. At one time he arrived at Yuquan Temple, intending it to be his final resting place. At that time, there was a severe drought; the spring was exhausted, and the seedlings were scorched. The whole temple was about to scatter. Kongzang then prayed with the utmost sincerity; the spring immediately welled up and overflowed in response to the moment, and torrential rain poured from heaven. Clergy and laity changed countenance and sighed in boundless astonishment. In the sixteenth year of the Zhenguan reign-period, he died at Huichang Temple and was buried back at the mountain.