法苑珠林 29.40

29.40

and thereupon commanded the envoys, Li Yibiao, Court Gentleman for Court-Leaving Service, Acting Aide of the Court of the Imperial Insignia, and Upper Commandant of Cavalry, along with Wang Xuance, former Magistrate of Huangshui County in Rongzhou, as Vice Envoy, and others—twenty-two men in all—to tour and pacify those countries. They thereupon arrived at the vajrāsana beneath the Bodhi Tree at the Mahābodhi Monastery, where the thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa all attained the Path. Its adornments and physical marks are fully present, just like the true countenance; the miraculous stūpa and pure ground exhaust celestial skill beyond the heavens. This indeed has never been seen across ages, nor detailed in historical records.