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元陳君璋。黃岩人。端重寡言。年四十。與室葉氏。披誦法華。念佛惟謹。年六十疾篤。一夕命其子景星。扶之坐謂曰。吾歸去。曰歸何處去。曰沒處去。又曰。我死宜依桑門闍維法。言訖合掌。稱南無阿彌陀佛而逝。

Chen Junzhang of the Yuan dynasty was a native of Huangyan. He was grave and reticent. At the age of forty, together with his wife Lady Ye, he opened and recited the Lotus Sūtra and practiced buddhamanasikāra with the utmost prudence. At sixty, his illness grew grave. One evening he instructed his son Jingxing to help him sit up, telling him, 'I am returning.' [The son] asked, 'Where are you returning to?' He answered, 'To no place at all.' He also said, 'When I die, you should follow the cremation rite of the śramaṇas.' Having spoken, he joined his palms, invoked 'Namo Amitābha Buddha,' and passed away.