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Punyamitra

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Punyamitra
Title26th Indian Chan Patriarch
Died388 CE[1]
Religious life
ReligionBuddhism
SchoolChan
Senior posting
PredecessorBashyashita
SuccessorPrajñātārā

Punyamitra was the 26th Indian Patriarch of Chan Buddhism. A legendary figure, little information about him exists outside of Buddhist hagiographic texts. He is estimated to have died late in the 4th Century CE.[1]

  1. ^ a b Schlegel, G. "Names of the 33 First Buddhist Patriarchs." T'oung Pao, vol. 8, no. 3, 1897, pp. 341–342. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4525290.

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Punyamitra French 不如密多 Chinese

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