Mahāyāna Buddhism arrived in China with the foreign missionaries and merchants approximately around 2nd Century A.D. Early Chinese Buddhists not only assists in the translation of Mahāyāna Sūtras but also recorded their interactions and practice of these Mahāyāna Sūtras under the guidance of monks from India and Central China in texts such as the biographies of eminent monks, responsive records, and ritual manuals. The importance of these texts, along with early Chinese translation of Mahāyāna Sūtras, are being reassessed with the formation of the origin of Mahāyāna Buddhism proposed by various scholars including Paul Harrison. Paul Harrison held that the extant earliest Mahāyāna Sūtras are those translated by Lokaksema and should be studied carefully if we were to unlock the mystery of the origin of Mahāyāna Buddhism. In this paper, I would like to respond to this theory by analyzing one recurring theme in these early biographies of eminent monks and responsive records—the records about “seeing the Buddhas.” Two texts that I choose to analyze side by side for cross reference is the Biographies of Eminent Monks and Zhiyi’s Lotus Samādhi Repentance Ritual as while the former can provide a context for our understanding the later, the later can provide us in-depth understanding of these brief accounts of “seeing the Buddha.”