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晉道敬。瑯琊人。祖凝之刺江州。因從遠公出家年十七。博通經論。日記萬言。篤志念佛。蚤夜弗替。宋永初元年。謂眾曰。先師見命。吾其行矣。端坐唱佛而化。眾見光明滿室。彌時方滅。

Daojing of the Jin was a native of Langya. His grandfather Ningzhi was the Inspector of Jiangzhou; because of this, Daojing followed Master Yuan to leave the household at the age of seventeen. Broadly versed in sūtras and treatises, he recorded ten thousand words a day. With resolute aspiration he engaged in buddhamanasikāra, day and night without interruption. In the first year of the Yongchu era of the Song, he said to the assembly: "My late teacher is summoning me; I shall depart." Sitting upright and chanting the Buddha's name, he transformed. The assembly saw light filling the room, which extinguished only after an entire hour.