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十一祖富那夜奢尊者　華氏國人也。姓瞿曇氏。父寶身既得法於脇尊者。至波羅奈國。有馬鳴大士歸依求度。祖為眾曰。此大士者。昔為毘舍利國王。其國有一類人。如馬裸露。王運神通分身為蠶。彼乃得衣。後復生中印度。馬人感戀悲鳴。因號馬鳴。是時大士以偈慰彼眾曰。我見汝無衣。心生保善護。示化於窠圍。當得諸濟度。既而祖謂大士曰。如來記云吾滅度後六百年。當有賢者馬鳴。於波羅奈國摧伏異道。度人無量。繼吾傳化。今正是時。即告之曰。如來大法眼藏。今付於汝。聽吾偈曰。迷悟如隱顯。明暗不相離。今付隱顯法。非一亦非二。付法已。即現神變。湛然圓寂。眾興寶塔。以閟全身。當此周安王之世也（正宗記）。

The Eleventh Patriarch, the Venerable Puṇyayaśas: a native of Pāṭaliputra, of the Gautama clan. His father was Baoshen. Having obtained the Dharma from the Venerable Pārśva, he arrived in Vārāṇasī. The Great Being Aśvaghoṣa took refuge and sought ordination. The patriarch said to the assembly: 'This Great Being was formerly the king of the kingdom of Vaiśālī. In that kingdom, there was a kind of person naked like horses; the king exercised supernatural powers and divided his body to become silkworms, so that they obtained clothing. Later he was reborn in Central India; the horse-people were touched with longing and neighed mournfully, hence he was called Aśvaghoṣa ("Horse-Neigh"). At that time, the Great Being consoled the assembly with a verse: / "I saw that you had no clothing / And gave birth to a mind to preserve, benefit, and protect; / Displaying transformation within the silkworm cocoon, / You should obtain all salvations." / Soon after, the patriarch said to the Great Being: 'The Tathāgata prophesied: "Six hundred years after my cessation, there will be a worthy named Aśvaghoṣa who in the kingdom of Vārāṇasī will crush heterodox paths, deliver countless people, and succeed me in propagating conversion." Now is precisely the time.' He then told him: 'The Tathāgata's Treasury of the Great Dharma Eye is now entrusted to you. Listen to my verse: / "Delusion and awakening are like concealment and manifestation; / Light and darkness are not separated. / Now I entrust to you the Dharma of concealment and manifestation: / It is neither one nor two." / Having entrusted the Dharma, he displayed supernatural transformations and peacefully entered complete cessation. The assembly erected a jeweled stūpa to enshrine his whole body. This corresponded to the era of King An of Zhou (Zhengzong ji).