The Awakening of Faith: Introduction: Lists of Patriarchs
LISTS OF PATRIARCHS.
The incorrectness of the Tibetan story, as to the conversion of Açvaghosha by Âryadeva above referred to, is further shown by a list of the Buddhist patriarchs in India appearing in various Buddhist books either translated from Sanskrit into Chinese or compiled
THE FO TSU T‘UNG TSAI THE FO TSU T‘UNG CHI THE FU FA TSANG CHUAN BHUDDABHADRA 1 SARVASTI-VADIN 1 Mahâkâçyapa Mahâkâçyapa Mahâkâçyapa Ânanda Mahâkâçyapa 2 Ânanda Ânanda Ânanda Madhyântika Ânanda 3 Çaṇavâsa Çaṇavâsa Çaṇavâsa Çaṇavâsa Madhyântika 4 Upagupta Upagupta Upagupta Upagupta Çaṇavâsa 5 Dṛtaka Dṛtaka Dṛtaka Kâtyâyana Upagupta 6 Micchaka Micchaka Micchaka Vasumitra Maitreya 7 Vasumitra Buddhanandi Buddhanandi Kṛshṇa Kâtyâyana 8 Buddhânandi Buddhamitra Buddhamitra Parçva Vasumitra 9 Buddhamitra Parçva Parçva Açvaghosha Kṛshṇa 10 Parçva Puṇyayaças Puṇyayaças Ghosha Parçva 11 Puṇyayaças Açvaghosha Açvaghosha Açvaghosha 12 Açvaghosha Kapi Kapimala Kumârata 13 Kapimala Nâgârjuna Nâgârjuna 14 Nâgârjuna Kanadeva 15 Kanadeva 34 Nâgârjuna 35 Deva
33:1 He was a native of Kapilavastu and came to China A D. 406. A translator of many Sanskrit works. His list belongs to the Sarvâstivâdin, though it is a little different from the succeeding one. The former contains fifty-four and the latter fifty-three patriarchs. See the Ch‘u san tsang chi chi
34:1
(Âryadeva)
(A Treatise on the Right Transmission of the Dharma) the authority of the Transmission of the Dharmapitaka (Fu fa tsang chuan), but he agrees with it down to the seventeenth patriarch. The principal point of his refutation is simply that Bodhidharma, the founder of the Chinese Dhyâna school, should be included in the list.
Footnotes
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(Nanjo's Catalogue, No. 1476).
, a priest of the Dhyâna school who died A. D. 1071 or 1072. He wrote among other works one on the fundamental identicalness of Confucianism and Buddhism.
