法苑珠林 30.31

30.31

依付法藏傳。佛以正法。付大迦葉。令其護持不使天魔龍鬼邪見王臣所有輕毀。既受屬已結集三藏流布人天。迦葉又以法屬累阿難。如是展轉乃至師子。合二十五人。並閻浮洲中六通聖者。大迦葉今在靈鷲山西峯巖中。坐入滅盡定。經五十六億七千萬歲。慈氏佛降傳釋迦佛所付大衣。廣現神變然後涅槃。

According to the Fu fazang zhuan, the Buddha entrusted the saddharma to Mahākāśyapa, commanding him to protect and preserve it so that the celestial Māras, dragons, ghosts, and heretical kings and ministers would not disparage or destroy it. Having received the entrustment, he compiled the tripiṭaka and spread it among humans and devas. Kāśyapa in turn entrusted the Dharma to Ānanda, and thus it was transmitted in succession down to Siṃha, making twenty-five persons in all, every one of them a sage endowed with the six supernatural knowledges in Jambudvīpa. Mahākāśyapa is now within a cave on the western peak of the Vulture Peak, sitting in the concentration of cessation. Passing through five billion, six hundred and seventy million years, when the Buddha Maitreya descends, he will transmit the robe entrusted by the Buddha Śākyamuni, widely display divine transformations, and only then enter nirvāṇa.