{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/taf/taf10.htm","path":"bud/taf/taf10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/taf/taf10.htm","text":"The incorrectness of the Tibetan story, as to the conversion of A\u00e7vaghosha by \u00c2ryadeva 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\nin China from sundry sources. In every one of them A\u00e7vaghosha is placed after Par\u00e7va or Pu\u1e47yaya\u00e7as\n| | THE FO TSU T\u2018UNG TSAI | THE FO TSU T\u2018UNG CHI | THE FU FA TSANG CHUAN | BHUDDABHADRA 1 | SARVASTI-VADIN | \n| 1 | Mah\u00e2k\u00e2\u00e7yapa | Mah\u00e2k\u00e2\u00e7yapa | Mah\u00e2k\u00e2\u00e7yapa | \u00c2nanda | Mah\u00e2k\u00e2\u00e7yapa | \n| 2 | \u00c2nanda | \u00c2nanda | \u00c2nanda | Madhy\u00e2ntika | \u00c2nanda | \n| 3 | \u00c7a\u1e47av\u00e2sa | \u00c7a\u1e47av\u00e2sa | \u00c7a\u1e47av\u00e2sa | \u00c7a\u1e47av\u00e2sa | Madhy\u00e2ntika | \n| 4 | Upagupta | Upagupta | Upagupta | Upagupta | \u00c7a\u1e47av\u00e2sa | \n| 5 | D\u1e5btaka | D\u1e5btaka | D\u1e5btaka | K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana | Upagupta | \n| 6 | Micchaka | Micchaka | Micchaka | Vasumitra | Maitreya | \n| 7 | Vasumitra | Buddhanandi | Buddhanandi | K\u1e5bsh\u1e47a | K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana | \n| 8 | Buddh\u00e2nandi | Buddhamitra | Buddhamitra | Par\u00e7va | Vasumitra | \n| 9 | Buddhamitra | Par\u00e7va | Par\u00e7va | A\u00e7vaghosha | K\u1e5bsh\u1e47a | \n| 10 | Par\u00e7va | Pu\u1e47yaya\u00e7as | Pu\u1e47yaya\u00e7as | Ghosha | Par\u00e7va | \n| 11 | Pu\u1e47yaya\u00e7as | A\u00e7vaghosha | A\u00e7vaghosha | | A\u00e7vaghosha | \n| 12 | A\u00e7vaghosha | Kapi | Kapimala | | Kum\u00e2rata | \n| 13 | Kapimala | N\u00e2g\u00e2rjuna | N\u00e2g\u00e2rjuna | | | \n| 14 | N\u00e2g\u00e2rjuna | Kanadeva | | | | \n| 15 | Kanadeva (\u00c2ryadeva) | | | | | \n| 34 | | | | | N\u00e2g\u00e2rjuna | \n| 35 | | | | | Deva | \nand before both N\u00e2g\u00e2rjuna and \u00c2ryadeva, the most brilliant disciple of the former. The list on the opposite page, therefore, as noticed elsewhere, will furnish good material for fixing the time of A\u00e7vaghosha. It does not make any practical difference whether he was converted by Par\u00e7va himself or his immediate successor and disciple Pu\u1e47yaya\u00e7as, because it is most probable they all were contemporaneous. The list generally gives twenty-three or twenty-eight patriarchs beginning with Mah\u00e2k\u00e2\u00e7yapa, but not deeming it necessary to give a complete list, I have cut it short at Deva.\nChieh-sung 1 refutes in his Chuan fa chang tsung lun (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 Dhy\u00e2na school, should be included in the list.\n33:1 He was a native of Kapilavastu and came to China A D. 406. A translator of many Sanskrit works. His list belongs to the Sarv\u00e2stiv\u00e2din, though it is a little different from the succeeding one. The former contains fifty-four and the latter fifty-three patriarchs. See the Ch\u2018u san tsang chi chi by (Nanjo's Catalogue, No. 1476).\n34:1 , a priest of the Dhy\u00e2na school who died A. D. 1071 or 1072. He wrote among other works one on the fundamental identicalness of Confucianism and Buddhism.","title":"The Awakening of Faith: Introduction: Lists of Patriarchs","type":"page"}