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宋晞湛。山陰人。少為儒生。忽厭世出家。與瑩行人。建無量壽佛殿於阮杜。專修淨業。坐不背西。久之常見佛及二菩薩相。一夕面西念佛。正坐凝然作印而化。

Xizhan of the Song was a native of Shanyin. In his youth he was a Confucian scholar, but he suddenly grew weary of the world and underwent pravrajyā. Together with practitioner Ying, he built a Hall of the Buddha of Immeasurable Life at Ruandu, devoting himself exclusively to cultivating pure karma. When sitting, he never turned his back to the west. After a long time, he constantly saw the forms of the Buddha and the two bodhisattvas. One evening, facing the west in buddhamanasikāra, he sat upright, entered deep stillness, formed a mudrā, and passed away.