法苑珠林 38.48

38.48

西京西扶風故縣在岐山南。古塔在平原上南下北。高鄉曰鳳泉。周魏以前寺名阿育王。僧徒五百。及周滅佛法。廂宇破壞唯有兩堂。至大業末年四方賊起。百姓共築此城以防外寇。唐初雜住失火焚之。一切都盡。二堂餘燼焦黑尚存。至貞觀五年。岐州刺史張亮素有信向。來寺禮拜。但見故塔基曾無上覆。奏勅請望雲宮殿以蓋塔基。下。

West of the Western Capital, the former county of Fufeng lies south of Mount Qi. The ancient stupa is on a plain, lower to the south and higher to the north, in a township called Fengquan. Before the Northern Zhou and Northern Wei, the monastery was called King Aśoka [Monastery], with five hundred monks. When the Northern Zhou destroyed the Buddhadharma, the halls and chambers were ruined and destroyed, leaving only two halls. Toward the end of the Daye era (605–618), rebels arose on all sides; the common people jointly built this walled city to guard against external raiders. In the early Tang, mixed inhabitants accidentally started a fire that burned it down; everything was completely lost, though charred remnants of the two halls still survived. In the fifth year of the Zhenguan era (631), Zhang Liang, the Prefect of Qizhou, who had always had faith, came to the monastery to pay homage. Seeing only the foundation of the old stupa with no covering above, he memorialized requesting an imperial edict to take down the Wangyun Palace hall to cover the stupa foundation. An imperial decree...