往生集 2.120

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Tang Shiliang of the Song dynasty was a native of Kuaiji. He upheld the precepts and practiced buddhamanasikāra. In old age and illness, he still would not take to his pillow. He recited the Amitābha Sūtra one hundred thousand times and said to his family, 'The Buddha has come to receive me.' Having spoken, he made prostrations and immediately passed away sitting upright. At that time the practitioner Li was on Mount Daowei; at night he dreamed of an extraordinary light in the west, with banners, flowers, and heavenly music, and a voice in the air saying, 'Tang Shiliang has already returned to the Pure Land.'