Buddha's relics of the Xuanjue Master

Jingguang Pagoda	Jingguang Pagoda

In the Songtaishan, Wenzhou city, there is a Buddhist pagoda called Jingguang Pagoda, built at the Tang Dynasty. It is said that Xuanjue Master, a Buddhist monk, cultivated himself according to a Buddhism doctrine. When he passed away, Buddhism believers established this pagoda to store his relics left after his body’s burning. And the emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty named this pagoda “Jingguang Pagoda”. But it was destroyed at the Ming Dynasty.
Lately, the Rebuilding Headquater of Wenzhou municipal government is conducting rebuilding of the Jingguang Pagoda. When clearing its column foot, they found Buddhist Relics with a shape of rice grains and a color of milky white, stored in a pot full of bone ash. According to the 80-year-old Shidacong, Abbot of the Miaoguo Temple in Wenzhou, the Buddhist Relic and the bone ash found under the Jingguang Pagoda were the relics of the Master Xuanjue.
At present, the Buddhist Relics is the oblate object in the Miaoguo Temple, Wenzhou.