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大唐西域記 8.51

大唐西域記 8.51

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Classical Chinese

8.51

菩提樹垣東南隅,尼拘律樹側,窣堵波傍有精舍,中作佛坐像。昔如來初證佛果,大梵天王於此勸請轉妙法輪。

After this, conceiving a heart of faith, those who were like-minded resolved to pay their adoration to the sacred traces; beholding the Bōdhi tree, they had no leisure for words about returning; but now, a month having elapsed, as they were walking together, they said in conversation, "Mountains and rivers separate us from our native country, and now as to the stūpa which we built formerly, whilst we have been here, who has watered and swept it?" On finishing these words and coming to the spot (where this stūpa stands), they turned round in token of respect; when suddenly they saw a stūpa rise before them, and on advancing to look at it, they saw it was exactly like the one they had built in their own country. Therefore now in India they call it the Kuṅkuma stūpa. At the south-east angle of the wall of the Bōdhi tree is a stūpa by the side of a Nyagrōdha (ni-keu-liu) tree. Beside it there is a vihāra in which is a sitting figure of Buddha. This is the spot where the great Brahmādēva exhorted Buddha, when he had first acquired enlightenment, to turn the wheel of the excellent law.

Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World

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