廣弘明集 17.70

17.70

The memorial from Xuzhou stated: On the twenty-eighth day of the second month, the relics arrived at a relay station west of the prefecture to lodge for the night. That night was cloudy and rainy; the relics emitted light extending forty-five li toward the prefecture. The monks of Jingdao Temple looked toward the northern mountain to view the light, whose shadow came from the place of the relics at the relay station. On the fifth day of the fourth month, when the polishing of the stone casket and lid for the relics was completed, there transformed and appeared two immortals, four monks, one lay devotee, one qilin, one lion, and two fish; all the rest resembled the forms of mountains and waters.