經律異相 9.33

9.33

時千世界微塵等菩薩摩訶薩。從地踊出一心合掌仰瞻尊顏。而白佛言。我等於佛滅後。世尊分身所在國土滅度之處當廣說此經。我等亦自欲得是真淨大法受持讀誦解說書寫而供養之。爾時世尊於文殊師利等無量百千萬億舊住娑婆世界菩薩及諸聲聞人非人等一切眾前。出廣長舌上至梵世。一切毛孔放無量色光。皆悉遍照十方世界。眾寶樹下師子坐上諸佛亦復如是（出法華經第六卷）。

At that time, bodhisattva-mahāsattvas as numerous as the dust motes of a thousand worlds leaped forth from the earth. With single-minded devotion, joining their palms and looking up at the Bhagavat's countenance, they addressed the Buddha, saying: "After the Buddha's extinction, wherever the Bhagavat's emanations are located in lands of nirvāṇa, we shall broadly expound this scripture. We ourselves also wish to attain this truly pure, great Dharma, to uphold, read, recite, explain, copy, and make offerings to it." At that time, before the entire assembly—including Mañjuśrī and immeasurable hundreds of thousands of myriads of koṭis of bodhisattvas formerly dwelling in the Sahā world, as well as the śrāvakas, humans, non-humans, and others—the Bhagavat extended his broad and long tongue up to the realm of Brahmā, and all his pores emitted lights of immeasurable colors, illuminating the worlds of the ten directions. The Buddhas seated on lion thrones under the various jewel trees did likewise. (From the sixth fascicle of the Lotus Sūtra.)