法苑珠林 38.94

38.94

又問楊都長干塔鄮縣塔是育王造者。是事云何。答曰。是昔劉薩何感靈令往楊州上越城望見長干。有異氣。因標掘得。如今傳所明。道宣師問。若爾已有若干。便有佛剎不。答曰。非剎干也。干是地之長隴。名隴為干。塔遍長隴之側。書不云乎。包括干越。越地多有長隴也。

Again it was asked: "What of the matter of the Changgan stupa in the capital Yang[zhou] and the Mao County stupa being built by King Aśoka?" The answer was: "In the past, Liu Sahe had a spiritual resonance that led him to go to Yang Prefecture; climbing up to Yuecheng, he looked toward Changgan and saw an anomalous vapor. Consequently, he marked it and excavated it, as clarified in present-day biographies." Master Daoxuan asked: "If so, since there were already [rulers like] Ruogan, was there already a Buddhist monastery (kṣetra) or not?" The answer was: "It was not a monastery's banner (chattra-daṇḍa). 'Gan' refers to a long ridge of land; ridges are called gan. The stupas were situated along the sides of the long ridges. Do the books not say: 'Embracing Gan and Yue'? The land of Yue has many long ridges."