高僧傳 13.22

13.22

In the first month of the third year of Putong, several men suddenly appeared carrying weapons; knocking on the gate at early night, they claimed that a slave of His Highness the Prince of Linchuan had rebelled, and someone had reported he was in the pavilion of the Buddha's tooth, asking to open the pavilion to inspect it. The temple administrators complied with their words and opened the pavilion. The leader went before the seat of the Buddha's tooth, opened the box, took the tooth, made three prostrations, wrapped the tooth in a brocade kerchief, and departed winding east around the mountain. To this day, its whereabouts are unknown.