傳法正宗定祖圖 1.39

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1.39

The eighteenth patriarch, Gayāśata, was a man of the kingdom of Madhyadeśa whose surname was Udraka. Throughout his life he had especially many miraculous traces. It happened that Saṅghanandi came to his house seeking him. Taking him as master, he renounced the householder's life, received the precepts, and was immediately transmitted the Dharma. Traveling to teach, he reached the kingdom of the Yuezhi and met Kumāralāta, for whom he explained the miraculous conditions of his family and the origin of his auspicious dream. Kumāralāta immediately took him as master and renounced the householder's life. As he was about to enter nirvāṇa, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse:

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