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釋僧厓。住益州多寶寺。篤心淨業。焚五指供西方三聖。或問痛否。答曰。心既無痛。指何痛焉。臨終天花如雨。人見厓班衲錫杖。與五六百僧。乘空而沒。

The monk Sengya resided at Duobao Temple in Yizhou. Earnest in mind toward pure karma, he burned his five fingers as an offering to the Three Holy Ones of the Western Direction. Someone asked whether it was painful, and he replied, “Since the mind feels no pain, how could the fingers be in pain?” When he approached his end, heavenly flowers fell like rain. People saw Sengya in patched robes holding a tin staff, together with five or six hundred monks, ascending into the sky and disappearing.