四明尊者教行錄 7.128

7.128

世雄化緣告息，韜形祕藏，唯塔像存焉。或封玉㲲、絨金骨，標幟高顯，俾回眸舉手咸成妙機，非率然也。粵有守澄上人，內習禪那，外營梵福，有年數矣。凡曰善利，知無不為。一旦惠然而來，議及勝概，乃曰：殊特者難偕聖塔，堅久者莫越貞珉。命愚同力營茲巨善。愚聞之，敢不稱讚，於是共募緇俗，獲泉貨六萬餘，乃命石工。匠成四所，不逾載𣏌，能事告圓。其二所對高五尋，立于院之庭。其次立于普賢懺院，蓋擇其勝地，咸得其宜也。其質狀擬于育王，鎔範眾寶，固無漏略。中寘鷲峯極談妙經，故不須復安舍利者，所謂已有如來全身也。矧復以實相為道，無金石鴻纖之殊也。劫火燒空，藍風動地，其可壞乎。愚不揣斐然，直書于此。

When the World-Hero's conditions for conversion came to an end, he concealed his form within the secret treasury, and only pagodas and images remain. Whether sealed in jade-fine cloth or wrapping golden bones, they are raised lofty and prominent, so that turning one's gaze or lifting one's hand all becomes a wondrous cause—this is by no means accidental. Now there is the Superior Shoucheng, who inwardly cultivates dhyāna and outwardly manages pure merit, which he has done for years. Wherever there was good and benefit, knowing it, he would not fail to do it. One day he came kindly and, speaking of superior tasks, said: 'Nothing extraordinary can match a sacred pagoda; nothing durable surpasses genuine stone.' He commanded this ignorant one to join forces in managing this great goodness. Hearing this, how could this ignorant one dare not praise it? Thereupon we jointly solicited monastics and laypeople, gathering over sixty thousand cash, and commissioned stonecutters. Four sites were crafted; within less than a year, the noble work was declared complete. Two of them, standing opposite each other at five fathoms high, were erected in the courtyard of the cloister. The next was erected at the Samantabhadra Repentance Cloister, selecting superior sites that all attained their proper fitness. Their forms were modeled on the King Aśoka [pagoda], casting all kinds of jewels, with nothing omitted. Within was placed the Wondrous Scripture of the ultimate discourse on the Vulture Peak, so there was no need to deposit further relics, which is what is called 'already containing the whole body of the Tathāgata.' Furthermore, with the True Mark as the path, there is no distinction between hard metal and fine dust. When the kalpa-fire burns empty space and the gale-winds shake the earth, how could it be destroyed? Not presuming my own poor literary skill, I record this straightforwardly here.