釋迦譜 4.23

4.23

菩薩處胎經云。佛在雙樹。欲捨身壽入涅槃。二月八日夜半。躬自擗僧伽梨。欝多羅僧。安陀羅跋薩。各三條敷金棺裏。𭣋身臥上脚脚相累。以鉢錫杖手付阿難。八大國王。皆持五百張白㲲。栴檀木蜜盡內金棺裏。大梵天王將諸梵眾。在右面立。釋提桓因將忉利諸天。在左面立。彌勒菩薩十方菩薩。當前立。爾時世尊。欲入金剛三昧碎身舍利。從金棺裏出金色臂。即問阿難。迦葉比丘今來至不。對曰未至。即復斂㲲入金棺裏。寂然不語。世尊將欲示現。識所趣向道識俗識。有為識無為識。世尊即於胎中。現句瑣骸骨。遍滿三千大千世界。佛告彌勒。汝觀句瑣骸骨。令一切眾。所知識所趣。分別決了。彌勒菩薩即從座起。手執金剛七寶神杖。撓句瑣骨聽彼骨聲。即白佛言。此人命終瞋恚結多。識墮龍中。此人前身十跡行具。得生天上。有一全身舍利無有缺減。彌勒以杖撓之。推尋此識了不知處。如是三撓前白佛言。此人神識了不可知。將非如來入涅槃耶。佛告彌勒。諸佛舍利流布。非汝等境界所能分別。何以故。此舍利即是吾舍利。何能尋究如來神識。又世尊還攝威神。在金棺裏寂然無聲。諸天燒香散花供養。時大迦葉將五百弟子至。世尊以天耳聞。即從金棺雙出兩足。

The Sūtra on the Bodhisattva in the Womb states: The Buddha was between the twin trees, intending to abandon his bodily lifespan and enter nirvāṇa. At midnight on the eighth day of the second month, he personally took his saṅghāṭī, uttarāsaṅga, and antarvāsas, each folded in three strips, and spread them inside the golden coffin. Straightening his body, he lay upon them with his feet resting on one another. He handed his bowl and tin staff directly to Ānanda. The eight great kings each brought five hundred lengths of white fine cloth; sandalwood, timber, and honey were completely placed inside the golden coffin. The Great Brahmā King led the Brahmā assembly to stand on the right side. Śakra Devānām-Indra led the Trāyastriṃśa gods to stand on the left side. Maitreya Bodhisattva and the bodhisattvas of the ten directions stood before him. At that time, the World-Honoured One, desiring to enter the diamond-like samādhi (vajrasamādhi) to break his body into relics, extended his golden arm from inside the golden coffin and asked Ānanda: 'Has the bhikṣu Kāśyapa arrived yet or not?' He replied: 'He has not yet arrived.' Thereupon, the Buddha drew back the fine cloth, entered the golden coffin, and fell completely silent. Wishing to demonstrate where consciousness goes—the consciousness of the path, the consciousness of the worldly, conditioned consciousness, and unconditioned consciousness—the World-Honoured One then, right within the womb[-like coffin], manifested linked skeleton bones throughout the entire trichiliocosm. The Buddha addressed Maitreya: 'Observe these linked skeleton bones, so that all beings may clearly know and resolve the destinations of consciousness.' Maitreya Bodhisattva thereupon rose from his seat, held a diamond seven-jeweled divine staff in his hand, tapped the linked bones, and listened to their sounds. He then said to the Buddha: 'When this person died, he had much anger and fetters; his consciousness fell among dragons. This other person, in his previous life, was complete in the practice of the ten paths of action and gained birth in heaven.' There was a whole-body relic with no deficiency; Maitreya tapped it with his staff, seeking where this consciousness had gone, but could find nothing. After tapping it three times in this manner, he stepped forward and said to the Buddha: 'This person's spiritual consciousness is completely unknowable. Could this be the Tathāgata entering nirvāṇa?' The Buddha told Maitreya: 'The distribution of the relics of the Buddhas is not a realm that you and others can discern. Why is that? This relic is precisely my relic. How could one trace the Tathāgata's spiritual consciousness?' The World-Honoured One then withdrew his divine power and remained silent and without sound in the golden coffin. The gods burned incense and scattered flowers in offering. At that time, Mahākāśyapa arrived leading five hundred disciples. The World-Honoured One heard him with his divine ear, and straightway extended both feet from the golden coffin.