Michaka

Mīcaka (also Miccaka), sixth patriarch in the Chan list, is named in the *Jǐngdé Chuándēng Lù* as the disciple of Dhṛtaka and teacher of Vasumitra. He is one of the figures whose attestation lies wholly within the Chan transmission-of-the-lamp literature; no independent canonical or scholastic record corresponds to him^[1]. The traditional account describes a teacher associated with central India who converted a community of brahmin ascetics through a single demonstrative encounter and recognized Vasumitra as his successor.

The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism notes that the names in this section of the lineage often correspond to figures known in northwestern Sarvāstivādin sources but reordered or relabeled to fit the Chan twenty-eight-patriarch frame; the identification of any particular name with a historically attested teacher is not always possible^[2].