龍舒增廣淨土文 5.2

5.2

Dharma Master Yuan of the Eastern Jin was the first to initiate the cultivation of the Pure Land. Vice Minister Wang Minzhong of the present dynasty and Layman Lu of Qiantang in recent years compiled over two hundred biographies of accounts of stimulus and response, all of which were carved onto printing blocks and circulated. Now I cannot record them all, so I have briefly selected thirty biographies in total—of those who cultivated with vegetarianism and precepts, average people who cultivated, sinful and evil people who cultivated, and those who cultivated amidst sickness and suffering—in order to inspire people's faith.