[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) › 1.72 # 傳法正宗定祖圖 1.72 傳法正宗定祖圖 1.72 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.72) 佛馱跋陀。天竺人也。本姓釋迦氏。甘露飯王之後也。初會秦僧智嚴於罽賓國。乃懇請跋陀偕來諸夏。傳授禪法。初至長安。其後乃之廬山。遂出其禪經與遠公同譯。譯成遠公為之序。嘗謂遠公曰。西土傳法祖師。自大迦葉直下相承。凡有二十七人。其二十六祖近世滅度。名不如蜜多者。所出其繼世弟子曰不若多羅者。方在南天竺國行其教化（達磨未繼世作祖。故未稱之）故其禪經曰。佛滅度後。尊者大迦葉。尊者阿難（云云）乃至不如蜜多羅。諸持法人。以此慧燈次第相傳。我今如其所明。而說是義。所聞者即達磨多羅也。後為二十八祖。故遠公序曰。達磨多羅。西域之俊。禪訓之宗。寶林傳所謂。跋陀嘗與遠公言其傳法諸祖世數。固驗於禪經矣。愚考其飜譯禪經之時。乃先於付法藏傳六十二年而已。有二十八祖而付傳。輒出魏氏毀教之後。但列二十四世。妄斷其相付法人於此便絕。反于禪經。豈其欲有所欺乎。愚正宗論嘗指其傳之非詳矣。然其謬書可焚也。 > Buddhabhadra was a man from India, originally belonging to the Śākya clan, a descendant of King Amṛtodana. He first met the Qin monk Zhiyan in Kashmir, who earnestly invited Bhadra to come along with him to China to transmit the Chan method. He first arrived in Chang'an, and later went to Mount Lu, where he brought forth his Chan scripture and translated it together with the Venerable \[Hui\]yuan. When the translation was completed, the Venerable Yuan wrote a preface for it. \[Buddhabhadra\] once said to the Venerable Yuan: "As for the patriarchs who transmitted the Dharma in the Western Lands, descending in direct succession from Mahākāśyapa, there were twenty-seven persons in all. The twenty-sixth patriarch, who passed into extinction in recent times, was named Puṇyamitra; the successor disciple whom he produced is named Prajñātāra, who is currently carrying out his teaching and transforming in the realm of Southern India (Bodhidharma had not yet succeeded to the lineage as patriarch, and hence he was not yet mentioned)." Therefore his Chan scripture says: "After the Buddha passed into extinction, the Venerable Mahākāśyapa, the Venerable Ānanda (and so forth), down to Puṇyamitra—all these holders of the Dharma successively transmitted this lamp of wisdom. Now, according to what they made clear, I explain this meaning." The one from whom this was heard was Dharmatrāta. He later became the twenty-eighth patriarch. Hence the Venerable Yuan's preface says: "Dharmatrāta was the paragon of the Western Regions, the chief of Chan instruction." As for what the Baolin zhuan mentions concerning Bhadra once speaking to the Venerable Yuan about the number of generations of the various patriarchs who transmitted the Dharma, it is indeed verified by the Chan scripture. When I examine the time when this Chan scripture was translated, it was sixty-two years earlier than the Fufazang zhuan. That there were twenty-eight patriarchs in the transmitted lineage was already recorded, yet the Fufazang zhuan rashly appeared after the Northern Wei's suppression of the teaching and merely listed twenty-four generations, falsely asserting that the persons who successively received the transmission of the Dharma were completely cut off at this point. Since it contradicts the Chan scripture, how could it not have intended to deceive? In my Zhengzong lun I have already pointed out that this account was not detailed. Indeed, that erroneous book may well be burned! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.71) - [Next: 1.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.73) - [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.1.72) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [傳法正宗記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.9.69) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.72) · Pramāṇa