折疑論 4.155

4.155

Furthermore, I found in the Golden Portal Sūtra on Paying Homage to the Primordial: 'May I gather udumbara flowers; may I burn candana incense; offering to the bodies of the thousand Buddhas, bowing my head to pay homage to Dīpaṃkara. Why was I born so late, and why was his nirvāṇa so early? Not seeing Śākyamuni, my heart is ever grieved.' (On the northwest cloister wall of Lingji Palace in Beijing, I saw a monk seated and a person prostrating. I asked a Taoist of the palace, 'What is this?' The Taoist said, 'This is the True Lord of Lingji; on the causal ground he once took Dīpaṃkara Buddha as his master.')