往生集 2.15

2.15

宋張抗。積善向佛。誓誦大悲陀羅尼十萬遍。求生淨土。年六十餘。寢疾一心念佛。謂家人曰。西方淨土只在堂前。阿彌陀佛坐蓮花上。翁兒在金地禮佛。言訖念佛而逝。翁兒抗孫也。三歲而亡。

Zhang Kang of the Song accumulated good deeds and was devoted to the Buddha, vowing to recite the Great Compassion Dhāraṇī one hundred thousand times to seek rebirth in the Pure Land. When he was over sixty years old, he fell ill and single-mindedly engaged in buddhamanasikāra. He said to his family: 'The Western Pure Land is right before the hall. Amitābha Buddha sits upon a lotus flower, and Weng'er is bowing to the Buddha on the golden ground.' Having spoken, he engaged in buddhamanasikāra and passed away. Weng'er was Kang's grandson, who had died at the age of three.