往生集 2.100

2.100

Song Man of the Sui dynasty was a native of Changzhou. He counted beans to perform buddhamanasikāra, accumulating thirty dàn. In the ninth month of the eighth year of the Kaihuang reign, having finished serving a meal to the monks, he passed away sitting upright. People saw heavenly flowers and extraordinary fragrance as Man mounted the empty air and went toward the west.