傳法正宗定祖圖 1.35

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1.35

The sixteenth patriarch, Rāhulata, was a man of the kingdom of Kapila whose surname was Brahmā. Having met [Kāṇa]deva and had the conditions of the fungus on his family's tree clarified, he immediately took him as master and renounced the householder's life, awakening to the Dharma with extraordinary traces. Afterwards, leading his disciples, he traveled and taught until he reached the city of Śrāvastī. In accordance with the Buddha's prophecy, he sought out Saṅghanandi, and soon had him renounce the householder's life to become his disciple. As he was about to enter parinirvāṇa, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse:

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