[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 53.15 # 佛祖統紀 53.15 佛祖統紀 53.15 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [53.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.53.15) 漢明帝問摩騰曰。白馬寺東有光怪。民呼聖塚。騰曰。昔阿育王藏舍利八萬四千塔。震旦之境有十九處。此其一也。帝俱往禮拜。詔造塔其上。九層二百尺。 > Emperor Ming of the Han asked Mātanga: "East of Baima Monastery there is a strange light, which the people call the Sage's Mound." Mātanga said: "In the past, King Aśoka enshrined relics in eighty-four thousand pagodas; within the realm of Cīnasthāna there are nineteen places, and this is one of them." The Emperor went together with him to pay homage, and decreed that a pagoda be built over it, nine storeys and two hundred feet high. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 53.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.53.14) - [Next: 53.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.53.16) - [Up: 53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.53) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.53.15) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.53.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.53.15) · Pramāṇa