法苑珠林 40.80

40.80

On the twenty-third day of the first month in the second year of Renshou, [śarīra] were again distributed to fifty-three prefectures to erect spiritual pagodas. Area commanders and prefectural governors on down to county commandants and above were ordered to suspend their regular duties for seven days, invite monks to practice the Way and transform the populace, strike the temple bells, and donate ten coins, all following the previous protocol. The appointed time was the hour of noon on the eighth day of the fourth month, when the entire country within the realm was simultaneously to inter the śarīra and seal them into stone caskets. The auspicious responses evoked are separately recorded as follows: