往生集 2.120

2.120

宋唐世良。會稽人。持戒念佛。年老疾病。猶不就枕。誦彌陀經十萬過。謂家人云。佛來接我。言訖作禮。即便坐逝。利行人時在道味山。夜夢西方異光。旛華天樂。空中聲云。唐世良已歸淨土。

Tang Shiliang of the Song dynasty was a native of Kuaiji. He upheld the precepts and practiced buddhamanasikāra. In old age and illness, he still would not take to his pillow. He recited the Amitābha Sūtra one hundred thousand times and said to his family, 'The Buddha has come to receive me.' Having spoken, he made prostrations and immediately passed away sitting upright. At that time the practitioner Li was on Mount Daowei; at night he dreamed of an extraordinary light in the west, with banners, flowers, and heavenly music, and a voice in the air saying, 'Tang Shiliang has already returned to the Pure Land.'