傳法正宗記 7.3

7.3

序曰。正宗至第六祖大鑒禪師。其法益廣。師弟子不復一一相傳。故後世得各以為家。然承其家之風以為學者。又後世愈繁。然周於天下。其事之本末已詳於傳燈廣燈二錄宋高僧傳。吾不復列之此。而書者蓋次其所出之世系耳。故分家傳起自大鑒。而終於智達。凡一千三百有四人也。

Preface: When the orthodox lineage reached the Sixth Patriarch, Chan Master Dajian, his Dharma became increasingly widespread. Masters and disciples no longer transmitted it exclusively one to one; thus later generations each came to form their own houses. Furthermore, those who received the style of their house and became practitioners grew ever more numerous in subsequent generations, spreading throughout the realm. The origins and details of these matters have already been set forth fully in the two records—the Chuandeng lu and the Guangdeng lu—and the Song Gaoseng zhuan; I do not list them again here. What I record here merely arranges the lineage of their descent in order. Therefore, the biographies of the branch houses begin with Dajian and end with Zhida, numbering 1,304 persons in all.