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**Lillie_Steins** · 07-08-2012, 09:30 AM

The First Council

For these traditions the first Patriarch in the lineage after the Buddha was Mahakasyapa. Thereafter there were another 26 teachers in India before Bodhidharma, travelled to China in the 5th century CE, becoming the first Ch'an patriarch.

According to Transmission of Light, by Keizan, the 33 patriarchs are:- Shakyamuni Buddha, Mahākāśyapa, Ananda, Shanavasa, Upagupta, Dhrtaka, Micchaka, Vasumitra, Buddhanandi, Puṇyamitra, Parshva, Punyayashas, Aśvaghoṣa, Kapimala, Nagarjuna, Kanadeva, Rahulata, Sanghanandi, Jayashata, Kumarata, Jayata, Vasubandhu, Manora, Haklena, Sinha, Vashashita, Puṇyamitra, Prajnatara, Bodhidharma, Huike, Sengcan, Daoxin, Hongren and Huineng.

07-08-2012, 09:30 AM	#39
Lillie_Steins Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 4,508 Senior Member	The First Council For these traditions the first Patriarch in the lineage after the Buddha was Mahakasyapa. Thereafter there were another 26 teachers in India before Bodhidharma, travelled to China in the 5th century CE, becoming the first Ch'an patriarch. According to Transmission of Light, by Keizan, the 33 patriarchs are:- Shakyamuni Buddha, Mahākāśyapa, Ananda, Shanavasa, Upagupta, Dhrtaka, Micchaka, Vasumitra, Buddhanandi, Puṇyamitra, Parshva, Punyayashas, Aśvaghoṣa, Kapimala, Nagarjuna, Kanadeva, Rahulata, Sanghanandi, Jayashata, Kumarata, Jayata, Vasubandhu, Manora, Haklena, Sinha, Vashashita, Puṇyamitra, Prajnatara, Bodhidharma, Huike, Sengcan, Daoxin, Hongren and Huineng.
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