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>Farang Rak Tham: Adding short description: "26th Indian Patriarch of Chan Buddhism" (Shortdesc helper)

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Adding short description: "26th Indian Patriarch of Chan Buddhism" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{short description|26th Indian Patriarch of Chan Buddhism}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Punyamitra
|religion = [[Buddhism]]
|school = [[Chan Buddhism|Chan]]
|title = 26th Indian Chan Patriarch
|predecessor = Bashyashita
|successor = [[Prajnatara|Prajñātārā]]
|death_date = 388 CE<ref name=Schlegel>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.</ref>
}}

'''Punyamitra''' was the 26th Indian Patriarch of Chan Buddhism. A legendary figure, little information about him exists outside of Buddhist [[hagiography|hagiographic]] texts. He is estimated to have died late in the 4th Century CE.<ref name=Schlegel/>

==Biography According to the Transmission of the Lamp==
According to [[The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp]], Punyamitra was the eldest son of a king of southern India known as Virtuous Conqueror. Punyamitra's father favored the teaching of certain heretical Brahmin sects, and had Punyamitra imprisoned for reproaching the king for favoring these Brahmins. After the robe of Bahsyashita, the 25th Patriarch, was miraculously unburned despite being thrown into a fire, the king relented and ordered Punyamitra's release. Upon his release, Punyamitra sought ordination from Bashyashita and served as his attendant for six years in the royal palace. Bashyashita was already extremely old, and soon designated Punyamitra as his heir before his death.<ref name=Lamp>{{cite book
| author = Daoyuan
| title = Records of the Transmission of the Lamp
| volume = I
| publisher = Books on Demand
| date = 2015
| pages = 129–31
| translator-last1 = Whitfield
| translator-last2 = Randolph S.
| language = English
| isbn = 9783738662467
}}</ref>

After Bashyashita's death, Punyamitra traveled to eastern India, where a group of Brahmins who practiced black magic attempted to oppose him. Punyamitra defeated them by banishing an illusion of a magical mountain and became advisor to the king who had previously patronized the Brahmins. Punyamitra declared that a sage lived in the king's country who would succeed him, and later encountered the orphan [[Prajnatara]] in the streets.<ref name=Lamp/>

==References==
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>Farang Rak Tham: Adding short description: "26th Indian Patriarch of Chan Buddhism" (Shortdesc helper)