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傳法正宗定祖圖 1.55

傳法正宗定祖圖 1.55

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1.55

第二十六祖不如蜜多。南天竺國人。姓剎帝利。亦多異迹。以太子從婆舍斯多出家得果。尋從斯多出宮。乃得付法。遊化至東天竺。得聖童子瓔珞。出家為徒。改名般若多羅。謂是大勢至菩薩垂迹。將入滅乃以法付之。說偈曰。

The twenty-sixth patriarch, Puṇyamitra, was a man of Southern India whose surname was Kṣatriya. He also had many miraculous traces. As crown prince, he renounced the householder's life under Bāśasita and attained the fruit [of the path]. Soon he left the palace with Sita and was transmitted the Dharma. Traveling to teach, he reached Eastern India and gained the holy youth Keyūra, who renounced the householder's life to become his disciple and whose name was changed to Prajñātāra, said to be a trace manifested by the Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta. As he was about to enter extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse:

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