廣弘明集 17.51

17.51

高麗百濟新羅三國使者將還。各請一舍利於本國起塔供養。詔並許之。詔於京師大興善寺起塔。先置舍利於尚書都堂。十二月二日旦發焉。是時天色澄明氣和風靜。寶輿旛幢香花音樂種種供養彌遍街衢。道俗士女不知幾千萬億。服章行位從容有敘。上柱國司空公安德王雄已下皆步從至寺。設無遮大會而禮懺焉。有青雀狎於眾內。或抽佩刀擲以布施。當人叢而下都無所傷。仁壽二年正月二十三日。復分布五十一州建立靈塔。令總管刺史已下縣尉已上。廢常務七日請僧行道。教化打剎施錢十文。一如前式。期用四月八日午時。合國化內同下舍利封入石函。所感瑞應者別錄如左。

When the envoys of the three kingdoms of Koguryŏ, Paekche, and Silla were about to return, each requested one relic to erect a stūpa and make offerings in their home country. An imperial edict granted all of them. An edict ordered that a stūpa be erected at Daxingshan Temple in the capital. First, the relics were placed in the grand hall of the Department of State Affairs, and were dispatched at dawn on the second day of the twelfth month. At that time, the sky was clear and bright, the weather harmonious and the wind calm. Jeweled carriages, banners and pennants, fragrant flowers, music, and various offerings filled the streets and avenues. The monastic and lay gentlemen and women numbered beyond knowing how many tens of thousands of millions. Their garments, badges, rows, and positions were composed and orderly. Those from Supreme Pillar of State, Minister of Works, and Prince of Ande Yang Xiong on down all followed on foot to the temple, where they held a great unrestricted assembly and performed rites of repentance. A blue bird became tame among the crowd. Some pulled out their daggers and cast them as donations, falling into the crowd of people without hurting anyone. On the twenty-third day of the first month of the second year of Renshou, relics were again distributed to fifty-one prefectures to establish numinous stūpas. Area commanders-in-chief and prefectural governors on down to county defenders on up were ordered to suspend their regular duties for seven days, invite monks to practice the Way, and encourage the people, when erecting the stūpa mast, to donate ten coins, strictly following the previous format. It was scheduled that on the eighth day of the fourth month at the hour of the horse, all throughout the empire and realm of transformation should simultaneously lower the relics and seal them into stone caskets. The auspicious responses thus elicited are separately recorded as follows: