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# 傳法正宗定祖圖 1.57

傳法正宗定祖圖 1.57

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [1.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.57)

第二十七祖般若多羅。東天竺國人。姓婆羅門氏。初以童子遇不如蜜多。其聖迹既顯。遂從之出家納戒。得傳法印。遊化南天竺國。得其國王之子菩提多羅。為之弟子。改其法名曰菩提達磨。此後更四十餘載入滅。乃以法付之說偈曰。

> The twenty-seventh patriarch, Prajñātāra, was a man of Eastern India whose surname was Brāhmaṇa. At first, as a youth, he met Puṇyamitra; when his holy traces had manifested, he thereupon renounced the householder's life under him, received the precepts, and was transmitted the Dharma seal. Traveling to teach in the kingdom of Southern India, he gained the prince of that kingdom, Bodhitāra, as his disciple, changing his Dharma name to Bodhidharma. More than forty years after this, as he was about to enter extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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## Linked texts (1)

- [傳法正宗記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.5.2) — Classical Chinese

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