佛祖統紀 53.12

53.12

宋太宗。建啟聖禪寺。奉優填聖瑞像釋迦佛牙。大祖親緘銀塔中。初太祖疑佛牙非真。取自洛以火煆之。色不變。遂製發願文。太宗復驗以火。親製偈讚。真宗迎供瞻禮。神光洞發。遂製讚。仁宗以三朝敬事。迎置禁中。於穴中得一舍利。因為製讚。慶歷三年久旱。迎佛牙入內殿祈禱。須臾雨大注。復製發願文○英宗勅大相國寺造三朝御製佛牙讚碑。學士王珪撰文○徽宗勅迎三朝御讚佛牙入內供養。隔水晶匣舍利出如雨。因為製讚。

Emperor Taizong of the Song built Qisheng Chan Monastery, enshrining the auspicious holy image of Udayana and the Śākyamuni Buddha tooth. Emperor Taizu had personally sealed it in a silver pagoda. Earlier, Taizu suspected that the Buddha tooth was not genuine; bringing it from Luoyang, he forged it with fire, but its color did not change, whereupon he composed a vow text. Taizong again tested it with fire and personally composed verses of praise. Emperor Zhenzong welcomed it for offerings, gazed upon it, and paid homage; a divine light shone through brightly, whereupon he composed a eulogy. Emperor Renzong, because it had been revered through three reigns, welcomed it to be installed in the imperial palace; within a cavity he obtained a relic, for which he composed a eulogy. In the third year of the Qingli era, during a prolonged drought, the Buddha tooth was welcomed into the inner palace to pray for rain, and shortly thereafter rain poured down in torrents; he again composed a vow text. Emperor Yingzong decreed that Da Xiangguo Monastery erect a stele with the Buddha tooth eulogies composed by the three reigns, with Academician Wang Gui drafting the text. Emperor Huizong decreed that the Buddha tooth praised by the three reigns be brought into the palace for offerings; through the crystal box, relics fell like rain, for which he composed a eulogy.