法苑珠林 40.35

40.35

The eastward flow of the relics has extended continuously across imperial eras. What records and annals touch upon presents but one ten-thousandth part. Because such phenomena repeated layer upon layer and manifested frequently, they were not considered uncommon; the subtle, hidden influence of the Buddha's transformation was indeed responsible. Yet in establishing realms and erecting pagodas, none surpasses the Sui dynasty: within a single conversion period there were over a hundred places. Divine portents unfolded and blossomed, as detailed in various separate accounts. Now I briefly set them forth to make manifest their sympathetic virtue, and so forth.