歷代三寶紀 3.69

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3.69

(Xinwei) Emperor Jianwen, Yu (Sixth son of Emperor Yuan; styled Xian'an 1. Dong Zongzhi, a native of Hepu Commandery in Jiaozhou, was a pearl diver by profession. Once, he saw a radiating light at the bottom of the sea; when he went to retrieve it, he obtained a Buddha's halo. He immediately presented it to the court, and the Emperor ordered it installed behind King Aśoka's statue, and it united invisibly [with the statue]. Only after more than forty years was it complete. Thereupon, the Emperor erected a three-story wooden stūpa atop the King Aśoka stūpa at Changgan Monastery); 7; 8

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