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唐雄俊。寓成都。膽勇過人。不守戒律。甞罷道從戎。尋復為僧。因聞經言。一稱佛名。滅八十億劫生死重罪。乃大喜曰。賴有此耳。自是雖為惡。而念佛不輟。丁未二月暴亡。經宿忽甦。言至冥司。主者曰。誤追汝。然汝念佛。本無深信。今還人世。宜倍精進。人以為地獄漏網。既而入山。齋戒念佛越四年。辛亥三月。緇輩咸集告曰。吾時至矣。爾輩還城見吾親知。為吾語曰。俊以念佛得生淨土。毋以為地獄漏網人也。語笑之間。端坐而化。

Xiongjun of the Tang dynasty resided in Chengdu. His bravery surpassed others, and he did not observe the precepts. He once abandoned the monastic life to join the army, but soon became a monk again. Because he heard a sūtra saying that reciting the Buddha's name a single time eradicates the heavy karmic retribution of saṃsāra for eighty billion kalpas, he rejoiced greatly and said, "I rely solely on this!" From then on, although he committed evil deeds, he practiced buddhamanasikāra without stopping. In the second month of the dingwei year, he died suddenly. After a night, he suddenly revived and said he had reached the nether administration, where the magistrate said, "You were arrested by mistake. However, your practice of buddhamanasikāra originally lacked deep faith; now that you are returning to the human world, you should double your diligence." People thought he had slipped through the net of hell. Soon after, he entered the mountains, observed the dietary precepts, and practiced buddhamanasikāra. After four years, in the third month of the xinhai year, monks gathered, and he announced to them, "My time has come. Return to the city, see my relatives and acquaintances, and tell them on my behalf: 'Jun has attained rebirth in the Pure Land through buddhamanasikāra; do not consider him one who merely slipped through the net of hell.'" In the midst of talking and laughing, he sat upright and transformed.