往生西方淨土瑞應傳 1.29

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唐朝岸禪師并州人。修往生業。每行方等懺。臨終時。觀音勢至二菩薩於空中現。召內畫工人。無能畫者。忽感二人曰。西京來。欲往臺山。便與圖寫訖。一去無蹤。師謂弟子曰。誰能逐我往西去。最少童子曰。願隨去。便入道場端坐而終。春秋八十矣。垂拱元年正月七日遷化。

Dhyāna Master An of the Tang dynasty was a native of Bingzhou. He cultivated the practice of rebirth and constantly performed the vaipulya repentance. When his end was near, the two bodhisattvas Avalokiteśvara and Mahāsthāmaprāpta appeared in the sky. He summoned painters, but none were able to paint them. Suddenly, moved by his devotion, two men arrived, saying, “We have come from the Western Capital and wish to go to Mount Tai.” Thereupon they finished painting them, and once they departed, left no trace. The master said to his disciples, “Who can follow me to go to the west?” The youngest boy said, “I wish to follow you.” Thereupon he entered the bodhimanda, sat upright, and died, at the age of eighty. On the seventh day of the first month in the first year of Chuigong, he passed away.