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2.296

大明中官孫名之母。一生齋戒念佛。年老微恙。自知時至。告其子。欲坐脫。子哀泣止之不得。乃為作龕。至期入龕。安坐化去。

Under the Great Ming, the mother of the palace official Sun Ming maintained vegetarian precepts and practiced buddhamanasikāra all her life. In her old age she had a slight illness, and knowing that her time had arrived, she told her son that she wished to pass away while sitting. Her son wept mournfully and could not stop her; he then made a shrine for her. When the time arrived, she entered the shrine, sat peacefully, and transformed.