佛祖統紀 4.33

4.33

時大迦葉與五百弟子在耆闍崛山。去拘尸城五十由旬（案赴佛涅槃經云。迦葉在伊茶梨山。去舍衛二萬六千里。教授一千弟子。此蓋部別不同。當以涅槃後分所出為正）迦葉於正受中心驚身顫。從定中出見地大動。即知如來已入涅槃。即將弟子往拘尸城至佛棺所。如來大悲。為迦葉故棺自然開。顯出真金紫磨堅固色身。迦葉哀哽。即以香水灌洗。千㲲纏身。棺開即閉。迦葉說偈。如來復現雙足千輻輪相出於棺外。迦葉禮讚金剛雙足。還自入棺。從心胸中火涌棺外。漸漸荼毘。經於七日。香樓乃盡（後分○案處胎經迦葉執火以然香薪。此部別不同。當以後分所出為正）佛滅度已。始經七日。大迦葉告五百阿羅漢。令詣十方世界盡集六通阿羅漢。得八億八千眾。於雙樹間聽受法言（處胎經）。

At that time, Mahākāśyapa was on Gṛdhrakūṭa Mountain with five hundred disciples, fifty yojanas away from the city of Kuśīnagara. (Note: The Sūtra on Rushing to the Buddha's Nirvāṇa says: 'Kāśyapa was at Mount Yichali, twenty-six thousand li from Śrāvastī, teaching one thousand disciples.' These are differences between traditions; one should take what appears in the Later Portion of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra as correct.) In deep samādhi, Kāśyapa felt his heart startled and his body tremble. Emerging from samādhi, he saw the earth violently shaking and immediately knew that the Tathāgata had entered nirvāṇa. He then led his disciples to the city of Kuśīnagara, arriving at the Buddha's coffin. Out of great compassion, for Kāśyapa's sake the coffin opened naturally, revealing the firm physical body of purplish-burnished real gold. Kāśyapa wept in sorrow, washed him with perfumed water, and wrapped his body in a thousand sheets of fine cloth. The coffin then closed again. Kāśyapa recited verses, and the Tathāgata again manifested his two feet marked with thousand-spoke wheels outside the coffin. Kāśyapa bowed in reverence and praised the vajra feet, which then returned into the coffin on their own. Fire surged forth from the chest outside the coffin, gradually cremating it. After seven days had passed, the incense pyre was entirely consumed (Later Portion; Note: The Garbhastha Sūtra says Kāśyapa held the fire to light the fragrant firewood. These are differences between traditions; one should take what appears in the Later Portion as correct). Seven days after the Buddha's passing, Mahākāśyapa addressed five hundred arhats and dispatched them to the worlds of the ten directions to assemble all arhats possessed of the six supernormal knowledges, obtaining an assembly of eight hundred and eight million, to listen to and receive the words of the Dharma between the twin trees (Garbhastha Sūtra).