傳法正宗定祖圖 1.37

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The seventeenth patriarch, Saṅghanandi, was a man of the kingdom of Śrāvastī whose surname was Kṣatriya. He was the son of the king of that country, said to be a manifestation of the ancient King Vāra Buddha, manifesting birth in a royal family. He then shaved his head and received the precepts in the royal palace. Soon he went out to a stone chamber in a famous mountain of that kingdom to cultivate dhyāna. It happened that Rāhulata came to his place of meditation. Thereupon [Saṅghanandi] submitted respectfully and sought the essentials of the Dharma all the more. Rāhulata then transmitted the Dharma to him. Later, he went to the kingdom of Madhyadeśa to seek the one whom Rāhulata had prophesied would succeed to the Dharma, and found Gayāśata. Entering extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse:

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傳法正宗定祖圖 — Classical Chinese