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  1. Longshu's Expanded and Enlarged Pure Land Treatise (龍舒增廣淨土文)
  2. Volume 5 (第五)
  3. Master Yongming Shou of the early Song Dynasty (國初永明壽禪師)
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Longshu's Expanded and Enlarged Pure Land Treatise (龍舒增廣淨土文)


國初永明壽禪師
禪師名延壽。本丹陽人。後遷餘杭。少誦法華經。初為縣衙校。多折官錢。勘之止是買放生命。罪當死。引赴市。曹錢王使人探之。若顏色變即斬之。不變來奏。臨斬顏色不變。乃貸命。遂為僧。於禪觀中見觀音。以甘露灌其口。乃獲觀音辯才。下筆盈卷。著萬善同歸集宗鏡錄等。共數百卷。住持雪竇永明。日課一百八事。精進以修西方。既坐化。焚畢為一塔。有僧每日遶塔禮拜。人問其故。僧云。我撫州僧也。因病至陰府。命未盡放還。見殿角有僧畫像一軸。閻羅王自來頂拜。我問。此僧何人。主吏云。此杭州永明寺壽禪師也。凡人死者皆經此處。唯此一人不經此處。已於西方極樂世界上品上生。王敬其人。故畫像供養。我聞之故。特發心來此遶塔作拜。以此見。精修西方者為陰府所重。

後晉鳳翔僧志通
宋明州僧可久

CBETA Code: T1970

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