[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) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 28.31 # 佛祖統紀 28.31 佛祖統紀 28.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [28.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.28.31) 江公望。釣臺人。官司諫。少年登科蔬食清修。述菩提文念佛方便文。以勸道俗。有子蚤亡。託夢舅氏曰。欲稟大人。乞就天寧寺看寶積經。庶得生善處。大人修行功業已成。冥府有金字牌云。嚴州江公望。身居言貴志慕苦空。躬事熏修心無愛染。動靜不忘於佛法。言談罔失於宗風。名預脫於幽關。身必歸於淨土。宣和末知廣德軍。一旦無疾。面西端坐而化。 > Jiang Gongwang was a native of Diaotai. He served as Policy Monitor. Having passed the examinations in his youth, he ate vegetarian food and cultivated purity, composing the Puti wen (Text on Bodhi) and Nianfo fangbian wen (Expedient Means of Recollecting the Buddha) to exhort both clergy and laity. He had a son who died young, who appeared to his maternal uncle in a dream, saying: 'I wish to petition my father to please visit Tianning Temple and read the Ratnakūṭa Sūtra, so that I may be born in a good destination. My father's cultivation and merit are already accomplished; in the underworld there is a gold-lettered plaque that reads: "Jiang Gongwang of Yanzhou: in person he holds an eminent post of remonstrance, yet in aspiration he longs for suffering and emptiness; he personally attends to fragrant cultivation, and his mind is free of attachment and defilement; whether active or still, he never forgets the Buddha's Dharma; in speech and discussion, he never departs from the ancestral traditions; his name is already released in advance from the dark barriers; his body will surely return to the Pure Land."' At the end of the Xuanhe era, he was appointed Governor of the Guande Military Prefecture. One morning, without illness, he sat upright facing west and passed away. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 28.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.28.30) - [Next: 28.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.28.32) - [Up: 28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.28) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.28.31) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.28.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.28.31) · Pramāṇa