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隋尼大明。每入室禮念。先著淨衣。口含沈香。文帝后甚重之。將終之日。眾忽聞沈香滿室。俄而光明如雲。隱隱向西沒焉。

The Nun Daming of the Sui dynasty, whenever entering her room to pay homage and recite, would first put on clean clothes and hold aloeswood in her mouth. The empress of Emperor Wen respected her greatly. On the day she was about to end her life, the assembly suddenly smelled aloeswood filling the room. Presently, a bright light like a cloud faintly faded away toward the west.