傳法正宗記 9.72

9.72

Pei Xiu, styled Gongmei, served the Tang dynasty. During the Huichang era, as Vice Minister of War and Censor-in-Chief with the rank of Tong Pingzhangshi, he was celebrated as a famous chancellor. In composing the Dharma Transmission Stele for Master Mi of Guifeng, he wrote: 'Śākyamuni Tathāgata finally entrusted the Dharma-eye to Mahākāśyapa, ordering it to be transmitted from patriarch to patriarch to circulate separately in the world; it was not that he favored Kāśyapa and excluded humans, devas, śrāvakas, and bodhisattvas. From Mahākāśyapa down to Bodhidharma, there were twenty-eight generations in total. Bodhidharma transmitted it to Ke; Ke transmitted it to Can; Can transmitted it to Xin; Xin transmitted it to Ren; Ren transmitted it to Neng as the Sixth Patriarch.'