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'''Dhṛṭaka''' or '''Dhītika''' (提多迦)<ref>{{cite web |title=제5조 제다가존자(提多迦尊者) |url=http://hwangbulsa.org/bbs/hbs/005.htm?ckattempt=1 |website=황불사 (Hwangbulsa) |access-date=2019-11-04 |language=Korean}}</ref> was a Buddhist monk from [[Magadha]]. <ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms: With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TMOSDE1RIuAC&pg=PA373|year=2004|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7007-1455-1|page=373}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=5: Tổ Đề-Đa-Ca (Dhrtaka) |url=http://thuongchieu.net/index.php/chuyende/33vito/2911-dedaca |website=Thiền Viện Thường Chiếu |access-date=2019-11-04 |language=Vietnamese}}</ref> He is recognized as the fifth Indian patriarch in [[Chan Buddhism]] as recorded in the ''[[Record of the Dharma-Jewel throughout Successive Generations]]'' (歴代法寶記). His teacher was [[Upagupta]].

==Life==
Dhṛṭaka was the son of a wealthy [[brahmin]]. After ordaining as a Buddhist monk, he traveled to [[Mathura]] where he trained under Upagupta. Under his teacher's guidance, Dhṛṭaka received the sevenfold instructions and achieved [[arhatship]].

According to tradition, Dhṛṭaka proselytized extensively, successfully introducing Buddhism to the [[Tokharians]] in central Asia.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gyatso |first1=Mipham |title=Ways of Enlightenment: Buddhist Studies at Nyingma Institute |date=1993 |publisher=Dharma Publishing |location=University of Virginia |isbn=0-89800-255-9}}</ref> In the lineage of Chan Buddhism, he traveled to [[Madhyadeśa]], where he converted [[Micchaka]] and his 8,000 disciples to Buddhism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Buswell Jr. |first1=Robert E. |last2=Lopez Jr. |first2=Donald S. |title=The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism |date=2013 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0691157863}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Eitel |first1=Ernest John |title=Hand-Book of Chinese Buddhism |date=2018 |publisher=Forgotten Books |isbn=978-0266781318}}</ref>

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