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Pu Dingguo of the Song dynasty went by the sobriquet Xingzhai and served as a prefectural school instructor. He constantly practiced buddhamanasikāra and read the various Pure Land sūtras. On the third and eighth days of each month, he gathered monastics and laity to chant sūtras and practice buddhamanasikāra. In the fourth year of the Jiading era, he dreamed that a youth clad in blue told him: "The Buddha bids me summon you; in three days you shall be born in that land." When the day arrived, he bathed, changed his clothes, and passed away seated in buddhamanasikāra.