Yeongtapsa of Goguryeo高麗靈塔寺
1Bodeok heard a divine man, dug the ground, and a pagoda came out
髙䴡霊塔寺僧傳云,釋普徳字智法,前髙䴡龍岡縣人也.詳見下本傳.常居平壤城,有山方老僧來請講經.師固辭不免,赴講涅槃経四十餘卷.罷席至城西大寳山嵓穴下禪觀,有神人來請“冝住此地”,乃置錫杖於前,指其地曰“此下有八面七級石塔”,掘之果然.因立精舎曰霊塔寺,以居之.
Yeongtapsa (靈塔寺) of Goguryeo.
The Biographies of Monks says that the monk Bodeok (普德) had the courtesy name Jibeop (智法) and was a man of Yonggang-hyeon in old Goguryeo. The details are seen in his main biography below.
He always stayed in the fortress of Pyeongyang. An old monk who lived in the mountains came and asked him to lecture on the sutras. The master firmly declined but could not escape, so he went and lectured on the Nirvana Sutra, some forty scrolls.
When the session was over he came to the foot of a rock cave on Daebosan (大寶山), west of the fortress, and entered into meditation. A divine man (神人) came and asked him, "You should stay in this place."
Then he set his staff down in front and pointed at the ground, saying, "Below this there is a stone pagoda of eight sides and seven stories."
They dug, and it was indeed so. Because of this he built a hermitage, called it Yeongtapsa, and stayed there.