傳法正宗定祖圖 1.79

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Pei Xiu had the courtesy name Gongmei. Beginning in the Huichang era of the Tang, as Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, Censor-in-Chief, and Joint Manager of Affairs with the Secretariat-Chancellery, he was known as a famous minister of state. In composing the stele inscription for the transmission of the Dharma of Master [Zong]mi of Guifeng, he wrote: "Śākyamuni Tathāgata at the very end transmitted the Dharma eye to Mahākāśyapa, causing it to be transmitted from patriarch to patriarch and to circulate separately in the world—not out of partiality toward Kāśyapa while excluding humans, devas, śrāvakas, and bodhisattvas. From Mahākāśyapa down to Bodhidharma, there were twenty-eight generations in all. Bodhidharma transmitted it to [Hui]ke; Ke transmitted it to [Seng]can; Can transmitted it to [Dao]xin; Xin transmitted it to [Hong]ren; Ren transmitted it to [Hui]neng, who was the sixth patriarch."