The Buddha's Skull Bone in Najie
1The skull bone at the city of Xiluo, and the eight seals of eight houses
西行十六由延，便至那竭國界醯羅城。城中有佛頂骨精舍，盡以金薄、七寶校餝。國王敬重頂骨，慮人抄奪，乃取國中豪姓八人，人持一印，印封守護。清晨，八人俱到，各視其印，然後開戶。開戶已，以香汁洗手，出佛頂骨，置精舍外高座上，以七寶圓椹椹下，琉璃鍾覆上，皆珠璣校餝。骨黃白色，方圓四寸，其上隆起。每日出後，精舍人則登高樓，擊大鼓，吹螺，敲銅鈸。王聞已，則詣精舍，以華香供養。供養已，次第頂戴而去。從東門入，西門出。王朝朝如是供養、禮拜，然後聽國政。居士、長者亦先供養，乃修家事。日日如是，初無懈惓。供養都訖，乃還頂骨於精舍。中有七寶解脫塔，或開或閇，高五尺許，以盛之。精舍門前，朝朝恒有賣華香人，凡欲供養者，種種買焉。諸國王亦恒遣使供養。精舍處方四十步，雖復天震地裂，此處不動。
Going west sixteen yojanas, they reached the city of Xiluo on the border of the country of Najie. In the city there is a vihara that holds the skull bone (頂骨) of the Buddha, and it is adorned all over with gold leaf and the seven treasures. The king of the country honors the skull bone and holds it precious, and fearing that men might carry it off, he chose eight men from the powerful houses of the kingdom, and each of them holds one seal, and they seal it up and guard it. Early in the morning the eight men all come together, each looks at his own seal, and only then do they open the door. When the door is opened they wash their hands with scented water and bring out the skull bone of the Buddha and set it on a high seat outside the vihara. A round stand made of the seven treasures is set beneath it and a bell of glass covers it above, and all of it is adorned with pearls. The bone is of a yellowish white, about four cun across, and it rises up on top. Every day after the sun comes up, the men of the vihara climb the high tower and beat the great drum and blow the conch and strike the bronze cymbals. When the king hears it he goes to the vihara and makes his offering of flowers and incense, and when he has made his offering he bears the bone on his head in his turn and withdraws. He enters by the east gate and goes out by the west gate. Morning after morning the king makes his offering and does his reverence in this way, and only then does he attend to the government of the kingdom. The householders and the elders too make their offering first and only then see to the affairs of their houses, and they do so day after day and never grow slack from the first. When the offerings are all over, the skull bone is set back inside the vihara. Within it there is a stupa of deliverance made of the seven treasures, which opens and closes, about five chi high, and it holds the bone. Before the gate of the vihara there are men who sell flowers and incense every morning, and whoever wishes to make an offering buys what he will. The kings of many countries also send envoys to make offerings without ceasing. The ground of the vihara is forty paces square, and though the heavens should shake and the earth split, this place does not move.
2Where he offered flowers to the Buddha Dipankara
從此北行一由延，到那揭國城。是菩薩本以銀錢𧵍五莖華，供養定光佛處。城中亦有佛齒塔，供養如頂骨法。
Going north from here one yojana, they reached the city of the country of Najie. This is the place where the bodhisattva long ago bought five stalks of flowers with silver coins and offered them to the Buddha Dipankara. In the city there is also a stupa of the Buddha's tooth, and offerings are made to it by the same rule as to the skull bone.
3The staff of the Buddha, and his sanghati robe
城東北一由延，到一谷口。有佛錫杖，亦起精舍供養，杖以牛頭旃檀作，長丈六七許，以木筒盛之，正復百千人，舉不能移。入谷口四日西行，有佛僧伽梨精舍供養。彼國土亢旱時，國人相率出衣，禮拜供養，天即大雨。
One yojana northeast of the city one comes to the mouth of a valley. The staff (錫杖) of the Buddha is there, and a vihara has been raised for it and offerings are made. The staff is made of oxhead sandalwood, about one zhang six or seven chi long, and it is kept in a wooden tube. Though a hundred men or a thousand men lift it, they cannot move it. Entering the mouth of the valley and going west for four days, there is a vihara where the sanghati robe (僧伽梨) of the Buddha is kept and offerings are made to it. When that land suffers a drought, the people of the country lead one another out and bring out the robe and do reverence and make offerings, and then the sky sends down great rain.
4The shadow in the stone chamber, which fades as you draw near
那竭城南半由延，有石室，搏山西南向，佛留影此中。去十餘步觀之，如佛真形，金色相好，光明炳著，轉近轉微，髣髴如有。諸方國王遣工畫師模寫，莫能及。彼國人傳云，千佛盡當於此留影。影西四百步許，佛在時剃髮剪爪。佛自與諸弟子共造塔，高七八丈，以爲將來塔法，今猶在。邊有寺，寺中有七百餘僧。此處有諸羅漢、辟支佛塔乃千數。
Half a yojana south of the city of Najie there is a stone chamber set against the mountain and facing southwest, and the Buddha left his shadow inside it. Looked at from ten paces and more away, it is like the true form of the Buddha, and the golden marks of his body shine out clearly; but the nearer you draw the fainter it grows, until it seems now there and now not there. The kings of many countries sent painters to copy it, but none of them could match it. The people of that country hand it down that the thousand Buddhas (千佛) will all leave their shadows in this place. About four hundred paces west of the shadow is the place where the Buddha, while he was alive, shaved his head and cut his nails. The Buddha himself raised a stupa there together with his disciples, seven or eight zhang high, to be the model for stupas in time to come, and it stands there still. Beside it there is a monastery, and in the monastery there are more than seven hundred monks. In this place there are a thousand stupas of arhats and of pratyekabuddhas.