傳法正宗定祖圖 1.31

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The Fourteenth Patriarch, Nāgārjuna, was a man of Western India; his clan and surname are not known. He was of great intelligence and wisdom, thoroughly versed in all worldly learning. In his country, there was a mountain named Longsheng (Dragon Victory). In that mountain, there had originally been a divine dragon; where it resided, there was an enormous tree capable of shading the multitude of dragons. When Nāgārjuna had an awakening and wished to leave home, he entered that mountain and cultivated the Way relying on the tree, and was already able to proclaim the Buddha's Dharma for the assembly of dragons. Kapimala, learning of his renown, came to meet him. Nāgārjuna thereupon paid homage to him as his master and received the precepts. Traveling and transforming, he reached Southern India, where he obtained Kāṇadeva. When about to pass into extinction, he transmitted his Dharma to him, speaking a verse, saying: