傳法正宗定祖圖 1.73

1.73

Dharmakāla was a native of Central India. In the third year of the Huangchu era of the Wei, the renyi year, he arrived in Xuchang. The Xuchang monk Guangcan once asked: "What eminent masters are there in the Western Realm, and by what Dharma do they sustain the teaching?" Dharmakāla said: "In the Western Lands there are two great beings: one is named Manorhita (the twenty-second patriarch), and the other is named Haklenayaśas (the twenty-third patriarch). Both transmit the true Dharma and sustain the teaching by means of the Dharma. The one converts the Western Indian land, and the other converts the realm of Central India."