佛祖統紀 28.45

28.45

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.