佛祖統紀 37.28

37.28

大同元年。帝幸同泰寺設無遮大會○智者約法師亡。帝輟朝三日。素服哭之。從師受戒者。四萬八千人。皆服緦麻哭送。塔于誌公之左○勅於重雲殿為善慧大士別設一榻。講三慧般若經。公卿畢集。天子至。眾皆起迎。大士不動。御史問其故。答曰。法地若動一切法不安。帝善之○隱士趙伯休。於廬山遇律師弘度。得眾聖點記云。佛滅後優波離結集律藏。以其年七月十五日自恣竟。於律藏子便下一點。年年如是。波離以後師師相付。至僧伽跋陀羅。將律藏至廣州。當齊永明七年庚午七月十五日自恣竟。即下一點。其年凡得九百七十五點。伯休問曰。永明七年後。云何不點。度曰。已前皆得道人。手自下點。吾徒凡夫。止可奉持耳。伯休因點記推至大同初。凡一千二十年。與傳記參合。世尊生滅之年皆不同。蓋其宗承有異也。

In the first year of the Datong reign era, the Emperor visited Tongtai Monastery and held an unrestricted assembly. Master of Precepts Yue, the Wise One, passed away. The Emperor suspended court for three days and wept for him in plain white mourning clothes. The forty-eight thousand persons who had received precepts from the master all wore hemp mourning clothes and wept as they escorted him, stupa-enshrining him to the left of Master Baozhi. An imperial decree ordered that a separate couch be set up in the Chongyun Hall for the Great Being Shanhui to lecture on the *Threefold Wisdom Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra*. The dukes and ministers were all assembled. When the Son of Heaven arrived, the crowd all stood up to welcome him, but the Great Being did not move. An imperial censor asked him the reason, and he replied: 'If the Dharma-ground moves, all dharmas are unsettled.' The Emperor praised him. The recluse Zhao Boxiu met the Vinaya Master Hongdu on Mount Lu and obtained the 'Marking Record of the Assembly of Sages,' which said: After the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, Upāli compiled the Vinaya Piṭaka. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month of that year, after the pravāraṇā was completed, he placed a dot below the character for the Vinaya Piṭaka. It was done like this year after year. After Upāli, master transmitted it to master down to Saṅghabhadra, who brought the Vinaya Piṭaka to Guangzhou. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, year of Gengwu, the seventh year of the Yongming era of the Qi dynasty, after the pravāraṇā was completed, he placed a dot; that year a total of 975 dots had been made. Boxiu asked: 'Why was it not dotted after the seventh year of Yongming?' Du said: 'Before that, they were all men who had attained the Way, who placed the dots with their own hands. People of our sort are ordinary mortals, and can only uphold it.' Boxiu calculated from this dot-record down to the beginning of the Datong era, finding it to be 1,020 years. When compared with various records, the dates of the Bhagavat’s birth and passing are all disparate, which is simply due to differences in lineages.