法苑珠林 40.32

40.32

In the ninth year of the Yuanjia era of the Song, the household of Zhang Xuyuan in Xunyang held an eight-precept fast. Several dozen clerics and laypeople saw what appeared to be ice and snow atop the flowers before the image. Looking closer, they obtained several dozen śarīra. They then carried them across water, and their flames of light connected continuously. Later, they were eventually lost. Several days later, opening the cabinet to look again, they found a tooth. Inside a cosmetic box, wrapped in white fine cotton (karpāsa), were ten śarīra, whose flames of light reached to the heavens. People from various places all came to request them.