[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [六祖大師法寶壇經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008) › 1.150 # 六祖大師法寶壇經 1.150 六祖大師法寶壇經 1.150 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.150) 「已上七佛，今以釋迦文佛首傳。 > Buddha of the present auspicious eon: these are the seven buddhas. > > “Taking Śākyamuni Buddha as the first of these seven buddhas, the > > transmission \[is as follows\]: number one, the Honored One Mahākāśyapa; > > number two, the Honored One Ānanda; number three, the Honored One > > Śaṇavāsa; number four, the Honored One Upagupta; number five, the Hon- > > ored One Dhītika; number six, the Honored One Miśraka; number seven, > > the Honored One Vasumitra; number eight, the Honored One Buddhanandi; number nine, the Honored One Buddhamitra; number ten, the Honored One Pārśva; number eleven, the Honored One Puṇyayaśas; number twelve, the Honored One Aśvaghoṣa; number thirteen, the Honored One Kapimala; number fourteen, the Honored One Nāgārjuna; number fifteen, the Honored One Kāṇadeva; number sixteen, the Honored One Rāhulata; number seventeen, the Honored One Saṃghanandi; number eighteen, the Honored One Gayaśata; number nineteen, the Honored One Kumāralāta; number twenty, the Honored One Jayata; number twenty-one, the Honored One Vasubandhu; number twenty-two, the Honored One Manorahita; number twenty-three, the Honored One Halenayaśas; number twenty-four, the Honored One Siṃha Bhikṣu; number twenty-five, the Honored One Vasiṣṭa; number twenty-six, the Honored One Puṇyamitra; number twenty-seven, the Honored One Prajñātāra; number twenty-eight, the Honored One Venerable Bodhidharma (the initial patriarch in this land); number twenty-nine, Great Master Huike; number thirty, Great Master Sengcan; number thirty-one, Great Master Daoxin; and number thirty-two, Great Master Hongren. > > “\[I,\] Huineng, am the thirty-third patriarch. From the beginning, the patriarchs have each had successors. In the future, when it comes to letting the transmission be carried onward, you must not make mistakes!” > > Great Master \[Huineng\], after a vegetarian feast at Guoensi \[in Xinzhou\] on the initial third day of the eighth month of the fiftieth hexagenary year, the second year of the Xiantian \[period, or 713\] (In the twelfth month of this year, \[the year period\] was changed to Kaiyuan.), addressed his followers, “All of you, sit according to your stations. I am going to part from you.” > > Fahai addressed him, “Your Reverence, what teaching is it you leave so that the deluded people of later times will be able to see the buddha-nature?” > > The master said, “All of you, listen well. If the deluded people of some later time recognize sentient beings, \[they will recognize them\] as the buddhanature. If they do not recognize sentient beings, they could seek the Buddha for ten thousand eons without ever meeting him. I teach you now: to recognize the sentient being in one’s own mind is to see the buddha-nature in one’s own mind. If you wish to see the Buddha, just recognize the sentient being \[in your mind\]. It is only sentient beings who are deluded as to the Buddha; the buddhas are not deluded about sentient beings. If you are enlightened to > > your self-nature, then the sentient being is the Buddha; if you are deluded as > > to the self-nature, then \[what might be\] a ‘buddha’ is \[only\] a sentient being. > > If the self-nature is universally ‘same’ (i.e., level), the sentient being is a > — John R. McRae 2000, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch - [Previous: 1.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.149) - [Next: 1.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.151) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1) ## Translations (2) - [The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008~en-bdk.1.150) — John R. McRae 2000, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008~en-mt.1.150) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.150) · Pramāṇa