傳法正宗定祖圖 1.63

1.63

第三十祖僧璨。不知其何許人。初以處士見慧可尊者。不稱姓名。因問法發悟。乃師之出家。遂命今法名納戒。可祖乃以法付之。去隱舒州皖公山三十載。方為眾所歸。尋得道信以沙彌師之。道信既納戒。即以法付之。其後孑然乃南遊于羅浮山。其傳法偈曰。

The thirtieth patriarch, Sengcan, was of unknown origin. At first, as a retired scholar, he met the Venerable Huike without stating his name and surname. Through asking about the Dharma, he became enlightened, and thereupon took him as master and renounced the householder's life. He was then given his present Dharma name and received the precepts. Patriarch [Hui]ke thereupon transmitted the Dharma to him. He went into seclusion at Mount Wangong in Shuzhou for thirty years before the assembly came to rely on him. Soon he gained Daoxin, who took him as master as a novice monk. When Daoxin had received the precepts, he immediately transmitted the Dharma to him. Afterwards, he went solitary and traveled south to Mount Luofu. His verse of Dharma transmission said: