中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經 2.4

2.4

複殿東樓臺上層有星宿劫中第二佛全身七寶塔，一千三百級，六十四楞，白玉為臺。塔內有彼佛入涅槃像，八部侍衛，次下始有金身。遶塔四邊有八萬金臺觀，中有化佛能說法。塔上大寶珠王，形如白象。上有普賢菩薩像。佛去世後六年入金剛窟中。第二層有千葉金蓮，一一葉上皆有十六金觀。觀中多有普賢菩薩。花心有盧舍那佛於中說《花嚴經》百萬偈，是第四度說。又有迦葉佛時，此震旦國一人書大毘尼藏及修多羅藏。修多羅銀紙金書，毘尼金紙銀書。書此經時，在今荊州大明寺處，經蓮花東南臺內，律在葉上西南臺內。莊嚴供養不可說盡。百億四天下文字與此同者，斯人承一，雖鍾張王衛之儔未足為比。如來在日，諸國聖人來者，若文字與同，佛多以此經示之。佛去世後，文殊收入此清涼山金剛窟中。第三層內有七寶海，海有十六億金龍，各銜一大寶蓮華，華上金銀共作一臺，內有過去佛，說毘尼書，有三萬八千種。百億四天下同此方書最為第一。一一臺內各有摩尼珠王以為燈明。每至受戒，珠放光明，照戒壇上，化百千金觀。觀中各有普賢菩薩像，為受戒人說過去諸佛戒律不同相，又說菩薩持戒法門。諸受戒聞，得發初地。佛滅度後，迦葉持往狼跡山修羅窟中。彌勒出時，便將來本處，依前安置。此是金剛慧菩薩於星宿劫中第三佛時所造。第四層有牛頭旃檀塔十六枚，一一塔各有一千三百級。塔內多有釋迦成道轉法輪像。一一塔上各有七寶納覆四角。大金鈴鳴，聞小千世界，聲中多說造塔功德。佛成道已十五年，令彌勒菩薩將迦葉菩薩往，由乾陀山採上檀香造之。佛滅度後，龍收入海。第五層有釋迦化迦葉兄弟像。是耆婆童子，請忉利天人工琢玉作之。如來滅後，毘沙門王將住北天宮中。

The upper storey of the eastern terraced pavilion of the multi-tiered hall has the complete-body seven-jeweled stūpa of the second Buddha of the Nakṣatrakalpa, with one thousand three hundred tiers and sixty-four facets, resting on a terrace of white jade. Inside the stūpa is an image of that Buddha entering nirvāṇa, with the eight classes standing guard; only below it is the golden body. Encircling the four sides of the stūpa are eighty thousand golden terraced belvederes, within which are nirmāṇa-buddhas capable of preaching the Dharma. Atop the stūpa is a great king of jeweled pearls, shaped like a white elephant, bearing atop it an image of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra. Six years after the Buddha passed away, it entered into the Vajra Cave. In the second storey is a thousand-petaled golden lotus; upon each petal are sixteen golden belvederes, within which are many images of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra. In the center of the flower, Locana Buddha preaches one million gāthās of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra therein; this is the fourth preaching. Furthermore, in the time of Kāśyapa Buddha, a person from this land of Cīnasthāna wrote out the great Vinayapiṭaka and Sūtramiṭaka. The sūtras were written in gold on silver paper, and the Vinaya in silver on gold paper. When he wrote these scriptures, he was at the site of the present Daming Monastery in Jingzhou. The sūtras were placed inside the southeastern terrace of the lotus, and the Vinaya inside the southwestern terrace atop the petal. Their adornments and offerings are beyond telling. Among all the scripts throughout the hundreds of millions of four-continents that are identical to this one, this man received the foremost; even the likes of Zhong, Zhang, Wang, and Wei would not suffice as his peers. During the Tathāgata's days, when sages of various countries arrived, if their writing was identical to it, the Buddha mostly displayed these scriptures to them. After the Buddha passed away, Mañjuśrī gathered them into the Vajra Cave on this Qingliang Mountain. Inside the third tier is a sea of seven treasures; in the sea are 1.6 billion golden nāgas, each holding a great jeweled lotus flower in its mouth. Atop the flowers, gold and silver together form a terrace, inside of which are the Vinaya scriptures preached by past Buddhas, numbering thirty-eight thousand kinds. Among the scripts of the hundreds of millions of four-continents that are identical to this region's writing, these are supreme. Within each terrace is a maṇi jewel-king serving as an illuminating lamp. Whenever ordination is administered, the jewels emit light, illuminating the ordination platform and transforming into hundreds of thousands of golden belvederes. In each belvedere is an image of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, who expounds the differing characteristics of the vinayas of past Buddhas to the ordinands, and also expounds the bodhisattva Dharma-gate of upholding precepts. When the ordinands hear it, they are able to give rise to the first bhūmi. After the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, Kāśyapa carried it to the Asura Cave on Mount Kukkuṭapāda. When Maitreya appears, he will bring it back to its original location and install it as before. This was created by the Bodhisattva Vajramati in the time of the third Buddha of the Nakṣatrakalpa. In the fourth tier are sixteen gośīrṣa sandalwood stūpas, each having one thousand three hundred tiers. Inside the stūpas are many images of Śākyamuni attaining enlightenment and turning the wheel of the Dharma. Atop each stūpa, patches of seven treasures cover the four corners. When the great golden bells sound, they can be heard throughout the small chiliocosm, and their sound mostly expounds the merit of building stūpas. Fifteen years after the Buddha's enlightenment, he ordered Maitreya Bodhisattva to lead Kāśyapa Bodhisattva to Mount Gandhamādana to harvest superior sandalwood to make them. After the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, the nāgas gathered them into the sea. In the fifth tier are images of Śākyamuni converting the Kāśyapa brothers. These were crafted by the youth Jīvaka, who requested craftsmen from the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven to carve them from jade. After the Tathāgata's parinirvāṇa, King Vaiśravaṇa took them to dwell in his northern celestial palace.