往生集 2.144

2.144

大明蓮花太公者。越人。一生拙朴。惟晝夜念佛不絕。命終之後。棺上忽生蓮花一枝。親里驚嘆。因號蓮花太公云。

Old Grandfather Lotus of the Great Ming was a native of Yue. Throughout his life he was simple and unpolished, only practicing buddhamanasikāra day and night without interruption. After his life ended, a single branch of lotus flower suddenly grew atop his coffin. His relatives and neighbors marveled in sighing praise, and therefore called him Old Grandfather Lotus.