傳法正宗定祖圖 1.47

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The twenty-second patriarch, Manorhita, was a man of the kingdom of Nadī whose surname was Kṣatriya. He was the son of the king of that country and possessed great supernatural power. His royal father commanded him to take Vasubandhu as master and renounce the householder's life. Having received the precepts, he was transmitted the Dharma. Traveling to teach from Western India, he levitated himself by supernatural powers to the kingdom of the Yuezhi, where he gained the monk Haklenayaśas and immediately transmitted the Dharma to him. Soon he entered parinirvāṇa. His verse of Dharma transmission said:

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