高僧傳 8.39

8.39

He constantly vowed to be born in the Land of Peaceful Nurture (Sukhāvatī). Whenever the sun set toward the west, he would compose his face and join his palms. When the day of his death arrived, his body had no lingering ailment; he only told his disciples: 'I must go.' He then spread a mat on the ground, reverently paid homage toward the west, and suddenly passed away. This was the first year of the Yanxing era (494 CE), at the age of sixty-four. He was then buried on the southern side of the mountain.