南宗頓教最上大乘摩訶般若波羅蜜經六祖惠能大師於韶州大梵寺施法壇經 1.77

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Later, on the third day of the eighth month after the meal, the Master said: "Take your seats; I will now take leave of you!" Fahai asked, saying: "From the beginning down to the present, through how many generations has this sudden teaching Dharma been transmitted?" The Sixth Patriarch said: "Initially, it was transmitted through the seven Buddhas, Śākyamuni Buddha being the seventh; Mahākāśyapa was the eighth, Ānanda the ninth, Madhyāntika the tenth, Śāṇakavāsa the eleventh, Upagupta the twelfth, Dhṛtaka the thirteenth, Buddhanandi the fourteenth, Buddhamitra the fifteenth, Bhikṣu Pārśva the sixteenth, Puṇyayaśas the seventeenth, Aśvaghoṣa the eighteenth, the elder Kapimala the nineteenth, Nāgārjuna the twentieth, Kāṇadeva the twenty-first, Rāhulata the twenty-second, Saṅghanandi the twenty-third, Saṅghayaśas the twenty-fourth, Kumāralāta the twenty-fifth, Jayata the twenty-sixth, Vasubandhu the twenty-seventh, Manorhita the twenty-eighth, Haklenayaśas the twenty-ninth, Bhikṣu Siṃha the thirtieth, Śāṇavāsa the thirty-first, Upagupta the thirty-second, Saṅgharakṣa the thirty-third, Śubhamitra the thirty-fourth, Bodhidharma, the third son of the king of South India, the thirty-fifth, the monk Huike of the Tang country the thirty-sixth, Sengcan the thirty-seventh, Daoxin the thirty-eighth, Hongren the thirty-ninth, and Huineng myself am the fortieth to currently receive the Dharma." The Master said: "From this day forward, transmit it successively from one to the next; there must be an accord, so do not lose the essential tenet."