傳法正宗定祖圖 1.75

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Zhi Jianglianglou was a native of Central India. During the reign of the Prince of Chenliu of the former Wei, he arrived in Luoyang, where he translated scriptures together with Dharmasatya, Saṅghavarman, and others. He then said to the monks: "Formerly, when I was in the Western Regions, I once travelled to Kashmir, reached the source of Congtu, and entered Mount Xiangbai. There I saw Dharmatā, whose years were very advanced. He said that his teacher from whom he received the Dharma, the Venerable Siṃha, had once suffered disastrous and perverse harm brought about by King Mirkul. Before the disaster, [Siṃha] had already transmitted in advance the sublime Dharma of the Buddha's mind-seal handed down in succession from Mahākāśyapa to his fellow disciple (Dharmatā's fellow disciple) named Bāśasita (the twenty-fifth patriarch), also bestowing the robe as proof. At that time he immediately sent him to go and transform in the realm of Southern India." Zhi Jiang claimed that he himself also knew Bāśasita. Thus, the accounts of the various patriarchs, from the Seven Buddhas down to the twenty-fifth patriarch, Bāśasita, were translated by this Zhi Jiang.