龍舒增廣淨土文 8.5

8.5

Chen Qi of Wangjiang in my home commandery once killed a person wrongfully. Later, seeing a ghost appear, Qi was terrified and urgently recited Amitābha Buddha, and the ghost did not dare approach. Qi recited the Buddha's name incessantly, and the ghost thereupon disappeared. Thereafter he constantly recited the Buddha's name, and at the end of life passed away seated. Half a year later, he possessed his family's granddaughter named Miaoguang, saying: "Because of reciting Amitābha Buddha, I have already been born in Sukhāvatī." His movements and speech were just like in life, and relatives and acquaintances all came to see. After two or three days, his family said: "What a pity! While you were alive, no likeness of you was painted for us to make offerings to." Qi then manifested, looking dignified just as in life, only his face appeared youthful, for in the West there is long life without aging. His head had spiral curls like a Buddha, which is the beginning of becoming a Buddha. The scholar Zhou Xianshu of Wangjiang recounted this to me.