傳法正宗定祖圖 1.63

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1.63

The thirtieth patriarch, Sengcan, was of unknown origin. At first, as a retired scholar, he met the Venerable Huike without stating his name and surname. Through asking about the Dharma, he became enlightened, and thereupon took him as master and renounced the householder's life. He was then given his present Dharma name and received the precepts. Patriarch [Hui]ke thereupon transmitted the Dharma to him. He went into seclusion at Mount Wangong in Shuzhou for thirty years before the assembly came to rely on him. Soon he gained Daoxin, who took him as master as a novice monk. When Daoxin had received the precepts, he immediately transmitted the Dharma to him. Afterwards, he went solitary and traveled south to Mount Luofu. His verse of Dharma transmission said:

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