往生集 2.133

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Gao Haoxiang of the Liang dynasty was a native of Dongping. Closing his doors, he sat quietly, exclusively reciting the Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra. Once while in visualization, he felt his own body floating upon a red lotus on the water's surface. At first he did not see the Buddha, so right upon the flower he devoted his heart to prostrating to the Buddha, envisioning from afar the golden countenance's radiant splendor shining afar. One evening he saw an assembly of bodhisattvas come to welcome him, and he immediately passed away.