Jayata

Jayata, twentieth patriarch in the Chan list, is named in the *Jǐngdé Chuándēng Lù* as the disciple of Kumārata and teacher of Vasubandhu^[1]. He belongs to the legendary stratum of the late Indian lineage and is not securely attested outside the transmission-of-the-lamp literature.

Dumoulin notes that the Chan tradition's interweaving of legendary and historically attested names in this section of the list reflects a literary strategy: significant Mahāyāna figures (Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, Āryadeva, possibly Vasubandhu and Kumārata) anchor the chain, while bridging names like Jayata supply the formal continuity required by the twenty-eight-patriarch frame^[2].