Buddhists use various polite forms of address when speaking of monks, but the word patriarch is used only of Bodhidharma, founding patriarch of the Ch'an School. So how did the Pure Water Patriarch come by this appellation?
一般佛教徒對崇敬的出家眾，都稱上人或法師，唯一稱作「祖師」的達摩，是因被奉為禪宗的始祖，所以得此稱呼；清水祖師又是以何得名？