往生西方淨土瑞應傳 1.75

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唐朝張元祥上都人。稟性純直。日念西方。開皇二年六月三日辰時。索飯齋曰。賢聖相待。食畢焚香對西方。正念而終。送至墓所。異香光明蓋覆墓所。

Zhang Yuanxiang of the Tang dynasty was a native of the Upper Capital. His endowed nature was pure and straightforward, and he was daily mindful of the Western Land. On the third day of the sixth month in the second year of Kaihuang, at the Chen hour, he asked for a vegetarian meal, saying: 'The worthy and noble ones await me.' Having finished eating, he burned incense, faced the West, and passed away in right mindfulness. When he was carried to the burial site, miraculous fragrance and luminous radiance covered the tomb.