景德傳燈錄 1.83

1.83

After the Master spoke the gāthā, he entered the Lion's Swift Samādhi, leaped into empty space to the height of seven tāla trees, and then, returning to his original seat, transformed into fire and incinerated himself. Vasumitra collected the sacred bones, placed them in a casket of the seven jewels, and erected a stūpa, placing them on the upper tier. It was the seventeenth year of King Xiang, a *jiashen* year (it should be the fifteenth year).