[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大唐內典錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149) › 10.71 # 大唐內典錄 10.71 大唐內典錄 10.71 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149.10.71) 貞觀中。河東董雄為大理丞。少誠信。蔬食十數年。十四年中坐連李仙童事。上大怒使侍御韋悰鞫問甚急。因禁數十人。大理丞李敬玄司直王忻同連此坐。雄與同屋囚鎖。專念普門品。日得三千遍。夜坐誦經。鎖忽自解落地。雄驚告忻玄。忻玄共視鎖堅全在地而鉤鎖相離數尺。即告守者。其夜監察御史張守一宿直。命吏開鎖火燭照之。見鎖不開而相離甚怪。又重鎖紙封書上而去雄如常誦經。五更中鎖又解落有聲。雄又告忻玄等。至明告敬玄視之。封題如故而鎖自相離。敬玄素不信佛法。其妻讀經。常謂曰。何為胡神所媚而讀此書耶。及見雄此事。乃深悟不信之咎。方知佛為大聖也。時忻亦誦八菩薩名。滿三萬遍。其鎖解落。視之如雄不異。其事臺中內外具皆聞見。不久俱脫。 > During the Zhenguan era, Dong Xiong of Hedong served as an assistant in the Court of Judicial Review. He was sincere and honest from youth, and had eaten a vegetarian diet for over a decade. In the fourteenth year, he was implicated in the affair of Li Xiantong. The Emperor was exceedingly furious and sent the Attendant Censor Wei Cong to interrogate him with great urgency; several dozen people were imprisoned as a result. The assistant in the Court of Judicial Review Li Jingxuan and the judicial investigator Wang Xin were also implicated in this case. Xiong was imprisoned and fettered in the same chamber with them. He single-mindedly recited the Universal Gate Chapter, reaching three thousand times a day. While he was sitting at night chanting the sūtra, his fetters suddenly unlocked themselves and fell to the ground. Startled, Xiong told Xin and Xuan. Xin and Xuan together examined the lock; it lay intact and solid on the ground, yet the clasp and lock were separated by several feet. They immediately informed the guards. That night, the Investigating Censor Zhang Shouyi was on night duty; he ordered an officer to open the lock and illuminate it with a candle. Seeing that the lock had not been picked open yet was separated, he found it very strange. He locked it again, sealed it with paper, inscribed it, and left. Xiong chanted the sūtra as usual. During the fifth watch, the lock unlocked and fell again with a sound. Xiong again told Xin, Xuan, and the others. At dawn, he told Jingxuan to look: the paper seal and inscription were as before, but the lock had separated on its own. Jingxuan had never believed in the Buddhadharma; when his wife read sūtras, he would often say to her, 'Why are you bewitched by barbarian spirits to read such books?' Upon seeing this event with Xiong, he deeply realized the fault of his disbelief and only then knew that the Buddha is a great sage. At that time, Xin also recited the names of the eight bodhisattvas, completing thirty thousand recitations, and his lock unlocked and fell; examining it, it was no different from Xiong's. These occurrences were fully heard and seen within and outside the Censorate, and shortly thereafter, they were all released. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149.10.70) - [Next: 10.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149.10.72) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149~en-mt.10.71) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.56) — 道世, Classical Chinese - [集神州三寶感通錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.3.57) — 道宣, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149.10.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149.10.71) · Pramāṇa