法苑珠林 4.41

4.41

After the bingzhen day in the tenth month of the eighteenth year of the Zhenguan reign of the Tang dynasty (644 CE), there was a great thunderstorm in the skies bordering Fenzhou and Wenshui County in Bingzhou. A stone fell from the clouds in the sky, about the size of a pheasant's beak, high on its ridge and flat on its belly. Zhang Xiaojing, assistant magistrate of Wenshui County, joined the officials of Fenzhou in presenting a memorial. At that time, an elder master from the Bodhi Temple of Magadha in the Western Regions had arrived at the Western Capital, endowed with wide learning in both inner and outer lore.