勅修百丈清規 2.15

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帝師拔合斯八。法號惠幢賢吉祥。土波國人也。己亥歲四月十三日降生。父曰唆南紺藏。初土波有國師禪恒羅吉達。得正知見具大威神。累葉相傳道行殊勝。其國王世師尊之。凡十七代而至薩斯加哇。即師之伯父也。師天資素高。復禮伯父為師。祕密伽陀微妙章句一二千言。過目成誦七歲演法辯博縱橫。年十有五。歲在癸丑。

The Imperial Preceptor 'Phags-pa had the Dharma name Huichuang Xianjixiang (Mati-dhvaja Śrī-bhadra); he was a native of the kingdom of Tubo. He was born on the thirteenth day of the fourth month in the yihai year. His father was named Bsod-nams-rgyal-mtshan. Formerly in Tubo there was the National Preceptor Candra-rakṣita, who attained correct knowledge and vision and was endowed with great supernatural power; passed down through successive generations, his practice of the Way was extraordinary, and the kings of that country honored him generation after generation as master. After seventeen generations it reached Sa-skya-pa, who was the Master's paternal uncle. The Master was naturally gifted from early on, and also bowed to his uncle as his master. Esoteric gāthās and subtle verses of one or two thousand words he could recite upon a single glance. At seven years of age, he expounded the Dharma with wide-ranging and unrestrained eloquence. When he was fifteen years of age, in the guichou year,