往生集 2.77

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2.77

Su Shi of the Song dynasty went by the sobriquet Dongpo and served as an Academician of the Hanlin Academy. When banished to the south, he carried a hanging scroll of an image of Amitābha with him as he traveled. When people asked him about it, he replied: "This is Shi's official passport for birth in the Western Direction." When his mother, Lady Cheng, died, he used her bequeathed hairpins and earrings to commission the artisan Hu Xi to paint an image of Amitābha in order to dedicate it toward her rebirth.

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往生集 — Classical Chinese