傳法正宗定祖圖 1.61

1.61

The twenty-ninth patriarch, Huike, was a man of Wulao whose surname was Ji. At thirty, he cast aside worldly books, renounced the householder's life, and soon received the precepts. At thirty-two, because of an unusual dream, he took leave of his original master and concealed his traces in the capital of Luoyang. Meeting Great Master Bodhidharma, he stood in the snow and severed his arm, earnestly seeking the Dharma seal, and indeed received his transmission. [Bodhidharma] therefore changed his name, and he subsequently became someone to whom the assembly turned. Soon he gained the third patriarch, Sengcan, as his disciple and transmitted the Dharma to him. He then returned to the capital of Ye to repay his past debts. His verse of Dharma transmission said: