佛祖統紀 27.135

27.135

元肇。四明陸氏。文章陸佃之族。蚤歲習律閱大藏。誦蓮經萬部。又刺血書蓮經一部律宗諸疏三部。建炎四年金虜破四明。師時住湖心。虜逼之北行至南徐謂左右曰。吾將西歸矣。即聞笙歌之聲一時軍民咸見師西望念佛而化。

Yuanzhao was of the Lu clan of Siming, from the family of the writer Lu Dian. In his early years, he studied the Vinaya and read the Canon, reciting the Lotus Sūtra ten thousand times. He also pricked his blood to write one set of the Lotus Sūtra and three sets of commentaries of the Vinaya school. In the fourth year of the Jianyan era, the Jurchen barbarians overran Siming; the Master was then residing at Huxin. The barbarians forced him to travel north; when he reached Nanxu, he said to those around him: "I am about to return to the West." Immediately, the sound of reed-pipes and singing was heard, and at once the soldiers and civilians all saw the Master looking west, chanting the Buddha's name, and passing away.