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唐道綽。并州汶水人。十四出家。習經論。晚事瓚禪師學禪。又篤志神鸞淨土之業。有僧定中。見綽數珠如七寶大山。平居為眾講無量壽觀經。將二百遍。人各掐珠。口稱佛號。或時散席。嚮彌林谷。六時禮敬。初不廢缺。念佛日以七萬為限。貞觀二年四月八日歸寂。聞而赴者。滿於山寺。見化佛住空。天花下散焉。

Daochuo of the Tang was a native of Wenshui in Bingzhou. He went forth from the household at fourteen and studied the sūtras and treatises. Later in life, he served Chan Master Zan to study Chan. He was also devoted to the Pure Land practice of Shenluan. A monk, while in meditative concentration, saw Chuo counting prayer beads that looked like a great mountain of the seven jewels. In his daily life, he lectured on the Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra for the assembly nearly two hundred times. Everyone pinched their beads and orally chanted the Buddha's name. Sometimes when the assembly dispersed, the sound filled the forests and valleys. During the six periods of the day, he bowed and paid reverence, never slacking or missing any. For his buddhamanasikāra, he set a daily limit of seventy thousand times. On the eighth day of the fourth month in the second year of the Zhenguan era, he returned to quiescence. Those who heard of it and rushed there filled the mountain monastery. They saw a nirmāṇabuddha abiding in the sky, and heavenly flowers scattering down.