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Bashashita B Jap. name for the twenty-fifth patriarch in the Indian lineage of Zen. Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy […]

Simhabodhi (Jap., Shishibodai); twenty­ fourth patriarch of the Indian lineage of Ch’an (Zen). Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and

Manorata twenty-second patriarch of the In­dian lineage of Zen. Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism,

Vasubandhu outstanding scholar of the Sarvāstivāda and Yogāchāra schools, who is also considered the twenty-first patriarch of the Indian lineage

Shayata Jap. name for the twentieth patri­arch in the Indian lineage of Ch’an (Zen). Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy

Kumāralāta 19th patriarch of the Indian lin­eage of Zen. Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism,

Samghyathata eighteenth patriarch of the In­dian lineage of Ch’an (Zen). Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism,

Samghanandi seventeenth patriarch in the Indian lineage of Ch’an (Zen). Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism,

Rāhulabhadra sixteenth patriarch of the In­dian lineage of Ch’an (Zen). Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism,

Nāgārjuna one of the most important phi­losophers of Buddhism and the founder of the Mādhyamika school. Hardly any reliable dates