律相感通傳 1.88

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He also asked, "Resonances from the unseen realm occur frequently among ordinary people, yet it is doubted whether the spirit, having departed while the form decays, can still return. As recorded in biographies, sometimes after seven days, a hundred days, or even up to three years, the consciousness returns and the physical form rises up, no different from the living. As the sūtra says, 'Recording their spirit, keeping it at that King's place for five, three, or seven days'—why is this?"