翻譯名義集 5.104

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[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.