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邵願保雍州人。發心念佛聲聲不絕。自業懺悔。夜夢。寶蓮臺被牛牽來。觸損牛曰殺。我遂念彌陀經三卷。念佛百聲。牛乃歡喜。後遇金臺。乘空而去往。

Shao Yuanbao was a native of Yongzhou. He aroused the resolve to be mindful of the Buddha, sound after sound unceasing, repenting his own karmic offenses. In a dream at night, a jeweled lotus pedestal was being pulled by an ox; colliding with and damaging it, the ox said, 'Kill me!' He thereupon recited three rolls of the Amitābha Sūtra and recited the Buddha's name a hundred times. The ox was then delighted. Later he encountered a golden pedestal, mounted into the sky, and departed.