佛祖統紀 35.67
English (machine translation) 35.67
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35.67
In the first year of the Zhengyuan reign: since the Han and Wei, the two assemblies [of monks and nuns] had only received the Three Refuges, and there was no distinction between fully ordained monks and novice monks. Dharmakāla thereupon submitted a memorial requesting permission to implement the ordination ritual. Together with the Parthian monk Dharmasatya in Luoyang, he produced the Four-Part Vinaya Prātimokṣa of the Dharmaguptaka school and the karman rite for ordination by ten people. The monk Zhu Shixing was the first to receive ordination under it. (Kāla here translates as 'Dharmatime' [Fashi]; Dharmaguptaka here translates as 'Dharmaupright' [Fazheng]. The present Zichi Vinaya school uses Fazheng as the head of the Dharmaguptaka lineage, venerating him as the founding patriarch; Fashi came to this land and transmitted the Dharmaguptaka to conduct the ordination rite by ten people, becoming the second patriarch; down to Nanshan [Daoxuan], who wrote extensive commentaries and subcommentaries that circulated in the world, who is the ninth patriarch.)
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