Prevod

Then the emperor, wishing to have a likeness of the holy man preserved, sent three painters to him. Lest a single painter fail to capture his appearance faithfully, he instructed each of the three to make a separate portrait. The painters went to the holy man and explained that they had come by imperial command. “Wait a moment,” he said, and came out to receive them dressed in his Buddhist vestments. Each painter spread out his silk, and the three sat side by side, about to set brush to it, when the holy man said, “Wait. I have a true form. Look upon it and paint what you see.” The painters held their brushes and watched his face. With his thumbnail, he slit the skin of his forehead and drew it aside to left and right, revealing the golden face of a bodhisattva. One painter saw Eleven-faced Kannon; another beheld Shō Kannon. Each reverently painted what he saw, and they carried their portraits back to court. Astonished, the emperor sent another messenger to inquire, but the holy man had vanished without a trace. Only then did they say to one another that he had been no ordinary mortal.