廣弘明集 17.28

17.28

泰州於岱岳寺起塔。舍利至州。其夜岳廟內有鼓聲。天將曉。三重門皆自闢。或見三十騎從廟而出。蓋岳神也。舍利自州之寺。來至數里。雲蓋出於山頂。五色而三重。白氣如虹。來覆舍利散成大霧沾濕人衣。其狀如垂珠。其味如甘露。自旦至午。霧氣乃斂而歸山。分為三段。乍來乍往。如軍行然。蓋亦岳神之來迎也。於是瓶內有聲放光。高丈餘。食頃乃滅。人審視之。見瑠璃內金瓶蓋自開。瓶口有寸光如箸。炯然西指。雖急轉終不迴。如此經八日。將入函。光遂散出。還入金瓶雲霧復起。有童子能誦法華經。來禮舍利。遂燒身於野以供養焉。明年二月六日。泰山神鼓竟夜鳴。北聽（則聲南南聽則聲北）東西亦如之。

In Tai prefecture, a pagoda was erected at Daiyue Temple. When the relics arrived in the prefecture, on that night drum sounds were heard within the shrine of Mount Tai. As dawn approached, the triple gates all opened of their own accord; some saw thirty horsemen riding out from the shrine, who were the spirits of the peak. As the relics were brought from the prefecture toward the temple, reaching several li away, a cloud canopy emerged above the mountain summit, five-colored and three-layered. White vapor like a rainbow came and covered the relics, dispersing into a dense mist that moistened people’s clothing; its droplets resembled hanging pearls, and its taste was like amṛta. From dawn until noon, the mist gathered and returned to the mountain, dividing into three sections and moving back and forth as if an army on the march; this, too, was the peak spirit coming to welcome them. Thereupon, a sound arose from within the vial and it emitted light more than ten feet high, which extinguished after the duration of a meal. Looking closely, people saw that within the lapis lazuli, the lid of the gold vial opened on its own, and at the mouth of the vial there was an inch-long beam of light like a chopstick, brightly pointing west; though turned rapidly, it never changed its direction. This continued for eight days. When they were about to enter the casket, the light dispersed, returned into the gold vial, and clouds and mist arose again. There was a youth who could recite the Lotus Sūtra; he came to pay homage to the relics and subsequently burned his body in the wilderness as an offering. On the sixth day of the second month of the following year, the spirit drums of Mount Tai resounded throughout the night; listening from the north, the sound was in the south, and listening from the south, the sound was in the north, and it was likewise with east and west.