翻譯名義集 5.104

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【舍利】新云室利羅，或設利羅。此云骨身，又云靈骨。即所遺骨分，通名舍利。《光明》云：「此舍利者，是戒定慧之所熏修，甚難可得，最上福田。」《大論》云：「碎骨是生身舍利，經卷是法身舍利。」《法苑》明三種舍利：一是骨，其色白也；二是髮舍利，其色黑也；三是肉舍利，其色赤也。菩薩羅漢皆有三種。若佛舍利，椎擊不破；弟子舍利，椎試即碎。《感通傳》天人王璠言是大吳蘭臺臣也，會師初達建業，孫主即未許之，令感希有之事，為立非常之法。于時天地神祇，咸加靈被，於三七日，遂感舍利。吳主手執銅瓶，傾銅盤內，舍利所衝，盤即破裂。火燒椎試，俱不能損，遂興佛法。又多聞長子名那吒，嘗以佛牙贈宣律師。

[Śarīra] Newly termed śrīra or śarīra. This is translated as bone-body, or numinous bones. Namely, the surviving bone relics, collectively called śarīra. The Suvarṇaprabhāsa states: 'These śarīra are perfumed and cultivated by morality, concentration, and wisdom; they are extremely difficult to obtain, and are the supreme field of merit.' The Great Treatise states: 'Fragmented bones are the śarīra of the birth-body; scripture scrolls are the śarīra of the Dharma-body.' The Garden of the Dharma (Fayuan zhulin) explains three kinds of śarīra: first, bone, which is white in color; second, hair śarīra, which is black in color; third, flesh śarīra, which is red in color. Bodhisattvas and arhats all possess these three kinds. In the case of the Buddha's śarīra, it cannot be broken by pounding with an iron hammer; the śarīra of disciples will shatter when tested with a hammer. The Gantong zhuan records that the heavenly being Wang Fan said he was a minister of the Lantai in the Great Wu. When Master Kang Senghui first arrived in Jianye, Sun Quan, the ruler of Wu, did not initially grant him permission, requiring him to manifest a rare event to establish an extraordinary teaching. At that time, the deities of heaven and earth all bestowed spiritual assistance, and after three seven-day periods (twenty-one days), śarīra were finally obtained. The ruler of Wu held a bronze vase in his hand and poured them into a bronze basin; where the śarīra struck, the basin cracked. Tested by burning with fire and pounding with a hammer, they could not be damaged at all, whereupon the Buddhadharma flourished. Furthermore, the eldest son of Vaiśravaṇa, named Nata (Nalakuvara), once presented a Buddha tooth to Vinaya Master Daoxuan.