Haklena

Haklenayaśas (Chinese: 鶴勒那, transliterated *Haklena*), twenty-third patriarch in the Chan list, is named in the *Jǐngdé Chuándēng Lù* as the disciple of Manorhita and teacher of Siṃha Bhikṣu^[1]. The traditional account describes a teacher of central India whose preaching attracted a following of cranes (*haklena* glossed as "crane-fame"), an etiology that signals the legendary character of the figure rather than supplying biographical detail^[2].

Dumoulin notes that the names in the immediate lead-up to Siṃha Bhikṣu and the persecution narrative function compositionally to set the stage for the lineage's dramatic late-Indian arc; Haklenayaśas's role is structural^[3].