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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.