佛祖統紀 28.45

28.45

咎定國號省齋。為州學諭。常念佛讀淨土諸經。結西歸社以勸人。嘉泰初於小江慧光建淨土院。結石塔於池心。為鄉民火焚藏骨之所。印施念佛圖。月二八集僧俗。就淨土院。諷觀經念佛以為常。嘉定四年夢青童告曰。佛令召君。三日當生彼國。至日沐浴更衣。端坐念佛而化。

Jiu Dingguo styled himself Xingzhai. He served as Prefecture Academic Instructor. He frequently recollected the Buddha and read the various Pure Land sūtras, forming a Society for Returning to the West to exhort people. At the beginning of the Jiatai era, he built a Pure Land Cloister at Huiguang on the Xiaojiang, erecting a stone pagoda in the center of the pond as a place for villagers to cremate and store their bones. He printed and distributed diagrams of Buddha recollection. On the second and eighth of each month, he assembled clergy and laity to go to the Pure Land Cloister, chanting the Guan jing and reciting the Buddha's name as a regular practice. In the fourth year of Jiading, he dreamt of a green-clad youth who told him: 'The Buddha has ordered me to summon you; in three days you shall be born in that land.' When the day arrived, he bathed, changed his clothes, sat upright, recited the Buddha's name, and passed away.