[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [淨土論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1963) › 3.17 # 淨土論 3.17 淨土論 3.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1963.3.17) 尼大明月者，介洲平遙人也。少出家，住度脫寺，年將六十。去貞觀初，逢玄忠寺綽師講《無量壽經》，教念佛業。彼尼凡念佛時，先著淨衣、口含沈水香殊、燒香淨室念誦，三四年間相續不斷。終時起居無減，舉眾皆覩光明，於光明內聞有沈水香氣來迎，於即壽終。妹少明月，時亦同姊念佛為業，無常時亦感勝相（云云）。難記道俗，聞者皆同念佛。 > The nun Da Mingyue was a native of Pingyao in Jiezhou. She went forth from the household in her youth and resided at Duotuo Monastery; she was nearly sixty years of age. Toward the beginning of the Zhenguan reign era, she encountered Master Daochuo of Xuanzhong Monastery lecturing on the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, who taught the practice of mindfulness of the Buddha. Whenever that nun practiced mindfulness of the Buddha, she would first put on clean clothes, hold an aloeswood incense bead in her mouth, burn incense in a clean room, and recite, doing so continuously without interruption for three or four years. At the time of her passing, her daily movements were unimpaired. The entire assembly beheld a bright light, and within the bright light they smelled the scent of aloeswood incense coming to welcome her; she thereupon passed away. Her younger sister, Shao Mingyue, also took mindfulness of the Buddha as her practice together with her elder sister at that time; at the time of impermanence, she too was moved by extraordinary omens (and so forth). It is difficult to record all the monastics and laypeople who, upon hearing of this, all joined in practicing mindfulness of the Buddha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1963.3.16) - [Next: 3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1963.3.18) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1963.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1963~en-mt.3.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1963.3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1963.3.17) · Pramāṇa