The Prophecy of the Eastern Transmission

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Before Prajñātāra died, he spoke to Bodhidharma: 'You have completely understood the Dharma. Do not stay in India—the conditions here are fulfilled. Travel east, beyond the great sea, to the land of Han. There the Way will flourish in ways I have not seen in this land. Do not go quickly; wait sixty-seven years after I am gone. The time will be ready then.' Bodhidharma kept this instruction in his heart for the remainder of his life in India.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Prajnatara

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Prajnatara

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• No Need to Reciteproverb
• Send Bodhidharma Northproverb
• No Pride of Lineageproverb

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The One Who Has No Rank
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Just This Is It
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 1, Prajnatara chapter; Baolin Zhuan

  Jingde Chuandenglu: The Prophecy of the Eastern Transmission