佛祖統紀 33.13

33.13

Body Lamps: The Buddha said: 'Long ago in Jambudvīpa, I was a king. I gouged my flesh to a depth resembling a large coin, filled it with ghee, and made a thousand lamp wicks. I said to a brāhmaṇa, "Please speak the scriptures and the Dharma, as I seek the unsurpassed Way"' (from the *Sūtra of the Bodhisattva's Former Deeds*). A bodhisattva, for the sake of the causes and conditions of the Dharma, gouged his body to make lamps (from the *Nirvāṇa Sūtra*).