釋迦方志 2.111

2.111

又益州東三學山。常有神燈空中照耀。齋日倍多。又涼州南洪崖窟。沮渠蒙遜所造碑。寺見存有素聖僧常自行道。人來便止人去尋行。故其傍側足跡納納爾斯徒眾矣。不可具云。余聞入大乘論尊者。賓頭盧羅睺羅等。十六大阿羅漢住世通法。又有九億無學。亦此洲中未入涅槃。准此而詳。今諸山居多聞磬聲。或尋遇寺。豈非諸聖之所處乎。

Furthermore, on Mount Sanxue east of Yizhou, miraculous lamps regularly shine in the sky, increasing twofold on fast days. Also, at the Hongya Caves south of Liangzhou, there is a stele and a monastery built by Juqu Mengxun that still survive, where a saintly white-robed monk is often seen circumambulating on his own: when people approach he stops, and when people depart he resumes walking. Thus, beside him, footprints are packed thickly together, testifying to these followers; they cannot be recounted in full. I have heard that in the *Treatise on Entering the Mahāyāna*, the venerables Piṇḍola, Rāhula, and others, sixteen great arhats, reside in the world to preserve the Dharma; and there are nine hundred million aśaikṣas in this continent who have not yet entered nirvāṇa. Gauging from this, nowadays those dwelling in various mountains frequently hear the sound of stone chimes or encounter monasteries: are these not the abodes of these various holy beings?