Many monks from China, to which Buddhism was introduced in later years, headed out to India and the Kingdom of Thailand, where Buddha's sariras had been dedicated, and they held a memorial service with gems, etc., in front of stupa (a cone-shaped Buddhist monument in which Buddha's sariras were laid; a model and the origin of Japanese sotoba, or stupa); they took the gems as 'substitutes for Buddha's sariras' to China and applied them to the pagodas of their temples.
仏教が後年に伝来する中国では、多くの僧が仏舎利の奉納されたインドやタイ王国に赴き、仏舎利の収められたストゥーパ（仏舎利を納骨する円すい形の仏塔。日本の卒塔婆のモデルであり語源である）の前で供養した宝石類を「仏舎利の代替品」として持ち帰り、それを自寺の仏塔に納めた。