佛祖統紀 28.55

28.55

左伸。天台人。從神照授菩薩戒。刻三聖像。誦法華三千四百部。金剛二萬過。後臥疾。命男沙門淨圓。唱法華首題。增受菩薩戒。夢三偉人立江臯召伸登舟。復請僧誦彌陀經。遽曰。我已見佛光。即端坐作印而逝。

Zuo Shen was a native of Tiantai. He received the bodhisattva precepts from Shenzhao, carved statues of the Three Sages, chanted the Lotus Sūtra 3,400 times, and the Diamond Sūtra 20,000 times. Later he fell ill in bed and ordered his son, the śramaṇa Jingyuan, to chant the title of the Lotus Sūtra and re-administer the bodhisattva precepts. He dreamed of three tall men standing on a riverbank calling Shen to board a boat. He again invited monks to chant the Amitābha Sūtra, and suddenly said, 'I have already seen the Buddha's light.' He then sat upright, formed a mudrā, and passed away.