The Bodhisattva Samantabhadra Painted on the Wall of Heungnyunsa興輪寺壁畵普賢
1Indra came down and stayed ten days
第五十四景明王時,興輪寺南門及左右廊廡災焚未修,靖和·弘継二僧募縁將修.貞明七年辛巳五月十五日,帝釋降于寺之左經樓留旬日,殿塔及草樹圡石皆發異香,五雲覆寺南池魚龍喜躍跳擲.國人聚観嘆未曽有,玉帛梁稻施積丘山.工匠自來不日成之.
In the time of King Gyeongmyeong, the fifty-fourth ruler, the south gate of Heungnyunsa and the corridors on its left and right had burned, and they had not been repaired. Two monks, Jeonghwa (靖和) and Honggye (弘繼), gathered donations meaning to repair them.
In the seventh year of Zhenming (貞明), the sinsa year, on the fifteenth day of the fifth month, Indra (帝釋) came down to the sutra tower (經樓) on the left side of the temple and stayed ten days.
The halls and the pagoda, the grass and trees and earth and stones all gave off a strange fragrance; five-colored clouds covered the temple, and the fish and dragons in the south pond leaped for joy.
The people of the country gathered to watch and marveled that such a thing had never happened before, and jade, silk, and grain piled up like hills. Craftsmen came of their own accord and finished the work in only a few days.
2Indra tells them to paint Samantabhadra in his place
工旣畢,天帝將還,二僧白曰“天若欲還宫,請啚寫聖容至誠供養以報天恩.亦乃因兹留影永鎮下方焉.”帝曰“我之願力不如彼普賢菩薩遍垂玄化,畫此菩薩像虔設供養而不廢冝矣.”二僧奉敎敬,畫普賢菩薩於壁間,至今猶存其像.
When the work was done and the lord of heaven was about to return, the two monks said to him:
"If you are going back to your palace in heaven, please let us paint your holy form and make offerings to it with utmost sincerity, to repay heaven's grace. And so leave your likeness here, to guard the world below forever."
Indra said:
"The power of my vow is not equal to the way that bodhisattva Samantabhadra spreads his mysterious teaching everywhere. It is right to paint the image of this bodhisattva, make offerings devoutly, and never cease."
The two monks reverently followed his instruction and painted the bodhisattva Samantabhadra on the wall. That image still remains today.