傳法正宗定祖圖 1.57

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The twenty-seventh patriarch, Prajñātāra, was a man of Eastern India whose surname was Brāhmaṇa. At first, as a youth, he met Puṇyamitra; when his holy traces had manifested, he thereupon renounced the householder's life under him, received the precepts, and was transmitted the Dharma seal. Traveling to teach in the kingdom of Southern India, he gained the prince of that kingdom, Bodhitāra, as his disciple, changing his Dharma name to Bodhidharma. More than forty years after this, as he was about to enter extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse:

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