Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
The First Patriarch – the earliest patriarch, who is related to the school or sect, is called the first patriarch, and provides the foundation upon which the school is established. Among the first patriarchs of the Buddhist schools in China, Master Huiyuan of Mount Lu during the Eastern Jin dynasty was the first patriarch of the Pure Land School. Tracing Buddhism back to India, Nagarjuna Bodhisattva was the first patriarch of the Tientai School. He was born 700 years after the Buddha entered Nirvana.
初祖 - 與宗派淵源關係最早的祖師為「初祖」,是一宗創立的基礎。佛教宗派中的初祖有的為中國祖師,如淨土宗以東晉時代廬山慧遠大師為初祖;有的更加上溯至印度佛教,如天臺宗以佛滅後七百年出世之印度龍樹菩薩為初祖。
Namo Amituofo!
