佛祖統紀 5.14

5.14

七祖佛陀難提尊者。北天竺人。慧解善說勝服當世。初彌遮迦至其國。望雉堞上金色祥雲。歎曰。此下必有大士可為法嗣。乃往尋之。果於闤闠中見佛陀難提。而謂之曰。我師提迦多說。世尊昔遊北印度語阿難曰。我滅後三百年。有一聖人名佛陀難提。於此弘法。難提答曰。我思往劫甞獻如來寶座。彼因記我。當於賢劫釋迦法中宜弘教法。今符師語。願求出家。纔聞說法即得四果。彌遮迦臨欲入滅。即以正法付囑流布。後時難提化緣將畢。遂入涅槃。眾取舍利起塔供養（付法藏經）。

The Seventh Patriarch, the Venerable Buddhanandi, was a man of Northern India. His wisdom and understanding, as well as his skill in preaching, surpassed all in his day. When Micchaka first arrived in that country, he gazed at the golden auspicious clouds above the ramparts and sighed, 'Beneath this there must be a great being who can become the Dharma-heir.' He then went to search for him, and indeed found Buddhanandi in the marketplace. He said to him, 'My master Dhītika said that when the Bhagavat traveled in Northern India in the past, he said to Ānanda: "Three hundred years after my extinction, there will be a sage named Buddhanandi who will propagate the Dharma here."' Nandi replied, 'I recall that in a past kalpa I once offered a jeweled throne to the Tathāgata, and on that account he prophesied to me: "During the Bhadrakalpa, within the Dharma of Śākya, you should propagate the teaching." Now this matches your words, Master. I wish to seek ordination.' As soon as he heard the Dharma preached, he attained the four fruits. When Micchaka was about to enter extinction, he entrusted the true Dharma to him for dissemination. Later, when Nandi's karmic conditions for transforming beings were nearing their end, he entered nirvāṇa. The assembly gathered his relics and erected a stupa to make offerings to them (from the *Fu fazang jing*).