傳法正宗定祖圖 1.3

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1.3

The Initial Patriarch, Śākyamuni Buddha, manifested his birth in Central India as the son of the Holy King Śuddhodana. He soon relinquished the station of a Cakravartin King, left home, attained the unsurpassed Way, and turned the great wheel of the Dharma. Afterwards, at the age of seventy-nine, about to enter parinirvāṇa, he transmitted his great Dharma seal to his senior disciple, Mahākāśyapa, and also instructed Ānanda to assist in transmitting and transforming. Furthermore, with his gold-threaded saṅghāṭī robe, he ordered Mahākāśyapa to transmit it onward to the future Buddha of succession, Maitreya Buddha. He spoke a verse, saying:

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傳法正宗定祖圖 — Classical Chinese