傳法正宗定祖圖 1.3

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始祖釋迦牟尼佛。示生於中天竺國。為淨飯聖王之子。尋捨轉輪聖王位。出家成無上道轉大法輪。其後七十九歲垂般涅槃。乃以其大法印付其高第弟子摩訶迦葉。并勅阿難副貳傳化。復以金縷僧伽梨衣。令大迦葉轉付當來補處彌勒佛。其說偈曰。

The Initial Patriarch, Śākyamuni Buddha, manifested his birth in Central India as the son of the Holy King Śuddhodana. He soon relinquished the station of a Cakravartin King, left home, attained the unsurpassed Way, and turned the great wheel of the Dharma. Afterwards, at the age of seventy-nine, about to enter parinirvāṇa, he transmitted his great Dharma seal to his senior disciple, Mahākāśyapa, and also instructed Ānanda to assist in transmitting and transforming. Furthermore, with his gold-threaded saṅghāṭī robe, he ordered Mahākāśyapa to transmit it onward to the future Buddha of succession, Maitreya Buddha. He spoke a verse, saying: