歷代祖師

Readings

Pinyin: lìdàizǔshī

Wade-Giles: li-tai-tsu-shih

Hangul: 역대조사

Korean MC: yeokdae josa

Korean MR: yŏktae chosa

Katakana: レキダイノソシ

Hepburn: rekidai soshi

successive generations of patriarchal teachers

• Or successive generations of ancestral teachers. All the ancestral teachers 祖師 who comprise the multi-branched Chan lineage. The twenty-eight ancestral teachers in India, six ancestral teachers in China, and all of their dharma heirs.〔百丈淸規 T 2025.48.1137b4〕 [resp. Griffith Foulk, Charles Muller; ref. Nakamura]

Dictionary References:

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1307c

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1438c

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generated: 2013-10-17