善導の在家弟子に見る臨終行儀：新出「念弥陀仏誦弥陀経行者」墓誌銘について=A Deathbed Rite of a Lay Disciple of Shandao: The Newly Discovered Epitaph of a “Practitioner of Amitābha Buddha Mindfulness and Amituo jing Recitation”
This paper presents the original text and a modern Japanese translation of an epitaph for the Tang period lay person Bao Baoshou 包宝寿, and then examines connections between Shandaoʼs 善導 writings and the epitaphʼs portrayal of daily life practices for Pure Land rebirth and deathbed rites. The former consist of being mindful of Amitābha Buddha, reciting the Amituo jing, and maintaining the abstinential rules. The daily life practices for rebirth and the signs of the coming of the holy retinue to welcome him to the Pure Land experienced by Bao at the end of his life can be seen as the “highest of the high stage” （shangpin shangsheng 上品上生） as described in the Pure Land Contemplation Sūtra 観無量寿経, and also match the practice for the “highest of the high stage” in the Guannian famen 観念法門. Many lay practitioners were present at the end of Baoʼs life and Shandao also emphasized the existence of fellow practitioners.
