Editing Bodhidharma (section)

==== ''Record of the Masters and Students of the Laṅka'' ====
The ''[[Lengqie shizi ji|Record of the Masters and Students of the Laṅka]]'' (Léngqié Shīzī Jì 楞伽師資記), which survives both in Chinese and in Tibetan translation (although the surviving Tibetan translation is apparently of older provenance than the surviving Chinese version), states that Bodhidharma is not the first ancestor of Zen, but instead the second. This text instead claims that [[Guṇabhadra]], the translator of the ''[[Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra]]'', is the first ancestor in the lineage. It further states that Bodhidharma was his student. The Tibetan translation is estimated to have been made in the late eighth or early ninth century, indicating that the original Chinese text was written at some point before that.<ref name="TibetanZen">{{citation |last=van Schaik |first=Sam |title=Tibetan Zen, Discovering a Lost Tradition |pages=71–78 |year=2015 |location=Boston |publisher=Snow Lion}}</ref>

Tanlin's preface has also been preserved in Jingjue's (683–750) ''Lengjie Shizi ji'' "Chronicle of the ''Laṅkāvatāra'' Masters", which dates from 713 to 716.{{sfn|Dumoulin|Heisig|Knitter|2005|p=88}}/ca. 715{{sfn|McRae|2003|p=26}} He writes, 
{{blockquote|The teacher of the Dharma, who came from South India in the Western Regions, the third son of a great Brahman king."{{sfn|Dumoulin|Heisig|Knitter|2005|p=89}}}}