[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [傳法正宗定祖圖](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079) › 1.59 # 傳法正宗定祖圖 1.59 傳法正宗定祖圖 1.59 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.59) 第二十八祖菩提達磨（其名稱呼不同。如達磨多羅之類。凡三四說）南天竺國人。姓剎帝利。蓋其國王之子也。從般若多羅出家。得其付法。謂是觀音菩薩之所垂迹。其後六十七年。乃以法東來震旦其所傳授直指人心見性成佛。不資文字。初至梁。以其機緣不契乃往北魏。止於嵩少九年。方得慧可。從其求道。其後果以大法付慧可。并衣鉢為信。乃為此土傳法之初祖也。後去少林而示滅度。其傳法偈曰。 > The twenty-eighth patriarch, Bodhidharma (his name was called differently, such as Dharmatrāta, in three or four accounts), was a man of Southern India whose surname was Kṣatriya, being a prince of that country. He renounced the householder's life under Prajñātāra and received his transmission of the Dharma, said to be a trace manifested by the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. Sixty-seven years later, he came east to China with the Dharma. What he transmitted directly pointed to the human mind: seeing into one's nature and attaining Buddhahood, not relying on words and letters. At first he reached Liang, but because the karmic circumstances were not aligned, he went to Northern Wei, staying at Mount Song and Shaolin for nine years before he gained Huike, who sought the Way from him. Later, he did indeed transmit the Great Dharma to Huike, along with the robe and bowl as proof, thus becoming the first patriarch of the transmission of the Dharma in this land. Afterwards, he left Shaolin and manifested extinction. His verse of Dharma transmission said: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.58) - [Next: 1.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.60) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079~en-mt.1.59) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.59) · Pramāṇa