傳法正宗定祖圖 1.61

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第二十九祖慧可。武牢人。姓姬氏。三十捐世書出家尋得戒。三十二以異夢辭其本師。混迹於京洛。遇達磨大師。乃立雪斷臂。懇求法印。果得其傳授。因為易名。遂為眾之所歸。尋得三祖僧璨為之弟子。以法付之。却往鄴都。償其夙累。其傳法偈曰。

The twenty-ninth patriarch, Huike, was a man of Wulao whose surname was Ji. At thirty, he cast aside worldly books, renounced the householder's life, and soon received the precepts. At thirty-two, because of an unusual dream, he took leave of his original master and concealed his traces in the capital of Luoyang. Meeting Great Master Bodhidharma, he stood in the snow and severed his arm, earnestly seeking the Dharma seal, and indeed received his transmission. [Bodhidharma] therefore changed his name, and he subsequently became someone to whom the assembly turned. Soon he gained the third patriarch, Sengcan, as his disciple and transmitted the Dharma to him. He then returned to the capital of Ye to repay his past debts. His verse of Dharma transmission said: