佛祖統紀 4.35

4.35

序曰。智者有言。此舍利者。是戒定慧之所熏修。究其為義。則有生法全碎之辨。我不滅度常在靈山。此豈非法身全身乎。今論涅槃之後八萬四千。則唯示生碎二身爾。如來久遠劫來數數出現。蓋將開生身之迹。以顯法身之本。即碎身之狹以見全身之遍。大權益物可勝思議者哉。

Preface: The Wise One [Zhiyi] said: 'These relics are perfumed and cultivated by morality, concentration, and wisdom. When investigating their meaning, there is the distinction between the physical body and the Dharma body, whole and divided. "I do not enter extinction, but am ever on Vulture Peak"—how could this not be the whole Dharma body? Now, discussing the eighty-four thousand [relics] after nirvāṇa, it only demonstrates the physical and fragmented bodies.' For countless eons the Tathāgata has repeatedly appeared, precisely in order to open the traces of the physical body to reveal the origin of the Dharma body, and to use the narrowness of the fragmented body to show the pervasiveness of the whole body. How could the vast expedient means for benefiting beings be conceivable?