高僧傳 8.65

8.65

紹本巴西人，汝南周顒去成都，招共同下，止于山茨精舍。度與紹並為齊竟陵王子良、始安王遙光。恭以師禮，資給四事。度常願生安養，故偏講《無量壽經》，積有遍數。齊永元二年卒於山中，春秋六十有四矣。

Shao was originally a native of Baxi. When Zhou Yong of Runan left Chengdu, he invited Shao to travel down together with him, and Shao took up residence at the Shanci Hermitage. Both Fadu and Shao were treated with the respect due to teachers by Xiao Ziliang, King of Jingling, and Xiao Yaoguang, King of Shi'an, under the Southern Qi, who supplied them with the four requisites. Fadu always vowed to be reborn in the Land of Peace and Sustenance (Sukhāvatī), and therefore specialized in lecturing on the Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra, repeating it countless times. He passed away in the mountains in the second year of the Yongyuan reign period of the Southern Qi, at the age of sixty-four.