勅修百丈清規 2.15

2.15

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,