法苑珠林 12.72

12.72

又佛告目連。汝往須彌山頂。鳴鍾召集十方我本分身。諸佛及大千界聲聞菩薩眾等。佛放光明。大地震動諸佛雲集。世尊從座起。與分身佛俱共合掌禮塔觀門。觀門自開。彼黃金塔中有八萬真珠白銀樓觀。盛佛修多羅及大毘尼藏。諸臺觀上有大摩尼珠以為燈明。有六比丘入滅定白銀觀內多有七寶蓮華師子之座。其數八百萬。一一蓮華座皆有諸佛聲聞形像及八部神衛。復有五十比丘入滅盡定。佛告普賢。汝持我黃金螺至比丘所。吹我興世曲。并告我涅槃。普賢依教吹已。此比丘即從滅定起。問普賢言。今何佛出。答釋迦牟尼佛今將涅槃。彼比丘即共普賢來至佛所。禮敬起居却住一面立。塔內有六比丘。先白佛言。拘留佛涅槃時。令我住此塔。待至釋迦乃至樓至。彼佛勅我言。後佛興世。入涅槃時。結集三藏時當開。我觀取我經律一本。我此大千界百億諸國土書有六十四體。各取一本將付彼佛。令滅度後結集三藏竟時。當依我經本書寫莊嚴。又隨諸國所用不同。得傳文字者皆可用之。唯除皮骨土書不得傳寫。自外樹葉紙素金寶石鐵等。並得用之。彼佛令我入定守護經像。令付世尊涅槃後迦葉結集竟流傳諸國也。

Furthermore, the Buddha told Maudgalyāyana: "You shall go to the summit of Mount Sumeru and strike the bell to assemble all my original emanations from the ten directions, the Buddhas, as well as the śrāvakas and bodhisattvas of the trichiliocosm." The Buddha emitted bright light, the great earth shook, and all the Buddhas gathered like clouds. The World-Honoured One arose from his seat, and together with his emanation Buddhas, joined his palms and bowed to the viewing gate of the stūpa. The viewing gate opened of itself. Inside that golden stūpa were eighty thousand multi-storied pavilions of true pearls and silver containing the Buddha's sūtras and the great Vinaya piṭaka. Atop all the terraces and pavilions were great maṇi jewels serving as lamp lights. There were six bhikṣus who had entered the cessation concentration. Inside the silver pavilions were many lion seats of seven-jeweled lotus flowers, numbering eight million. Each lotus seat had images of Buddhas and śrāvakas, as well as the protective divine guardians of the eight classes. There were another fifty bhikṣus who had entered the cessation concentration. The Buddha told Samantabhadra: "Take my golden conch to where the bhikṣus are, blow my world-arising melody, and inform them of my parinirvāṇa." Samantabhadra blew it as instructed; thereupon, these bhikṣus arose from the cessation concentration and asked Samantabhadra, saying, "What Buddha has now appeared?" He answered, "Śākyamuni Buddha is now about to enter parinirvāṇa." Those bhikṣus then came with Samantabhadra to the Buddha's presence, paid homage, inquired after his welfare, and stepped back to stand to one side. The six bhikṣus inside the stūpa first addressed the Buddha, saying, "When Krakucchanda Buddha entered parinirvāṇa, he ordered us to dwell in this stūpa and wait until Śākyamuni and up to Rucika. That Buddha instructed us, saying: 'When a subsequent Buddha arises in the world and enters parinirvāṇa, when the Tripiṭaka is compiled, you should open my pavilion and take a copy of my sūtras and Vinaya. In this trichiliocosm of ten billion lands, there are sixty-four scripts; take one copy of each and deliver them to that Buddha, so that after his parinirvāṇa, when the compilation of the Tripiṭaka is completed, they shall transcribe and adorn them based on my scripture copies. Furthermore, according to the different customs of each country, whatever allows the transmission of writing may all be used, with the sole exception that leather, bone, and clay writings must not be used for transcription. Other than these, tree leaves, paper, silk, gold, gems, stone, iron, and the like may all be used.' That Buddha ordered us to enter samādhi and guard the scriptures and images, so that they may be handed over after the World-Honoured One's parinirvāṇa, when Kāśyapa completes the compilation, to be circulated among all countries."