集神州三寶感通錄 1.4

1.4

初明舍利表塔。昔如來行乞。有童子戲於路側。以沙土為米麪。逆請以土麪奉。佛因為受之。命侍者以為土漿。塗佛住房。足遍南面。記曰。此童子者。吾滅度後一百年。王閻浮提空中地下四十里內。所有鬼神並皆臣屬。開前八塔所獲舍利。於一日夜役諸鬼神造八萬四千塔。廣如眾經。故不備載（此土即洲之東境故塔現不足以疑）舍利西梵天言。此云骨身也（恐濫凡夫之骨故依本名而別之）。

First, the manifestation of stūpas through relics is clarified. In the past, when the Tathāgata was walking for alms, a boy was playing by the roadside. Taking sand and earth for rice flour, he went to welcome [the Buddha] and offered this earthen flour. The Buddha accepted it because of [his intention], and instructed his attendant to turn it into an earthen wash to coat the Buddha's dwelling room, which covered the entire south side. [The Buddha] prophesied, saying: "One hundred years after my extinction, this boy will be king over Jambudvīpa, within forty li into the sky and beneath the earth. All ghosts and spirits will be his vassals. He will open the previous eight stūpas to obtain their relics, and within a single day and night, he will employ the ghosts and spirits to build eighty-four thousand stūpas." This is described extensively in various sūtras, and so is not fully recorded here. (This land is the eastern border of the continent, so the appearance of stūpas here gives no cause for doubt.) "Śarīra" is the western speech of Brahmā; here it is called "skeletal body." (Fearing it might be confused with the bones of ordinary persons, it is distinguished according to its original name.)