Jayata

Jayata, the twentieth patriarch, received transmission from Kumarata and transmitted it to Vasubandhu. He is described as an accomplished practitioner who understood the ground of awakening and could recognize it in others. His name, meaning "victorious," suggests the quality of a realization that has overcome the fundamental error of taking oneself to be a fixed, separate entity.

The records of Jayata are sparse, as is common for the later Indian patriarchs, but his place in the lineage is unquestioned within the Chan tradition. He represents the faithful handing down of direct experience across generations and across the gradual dissolution of Indian Buddhist civilization.