慧可大師 Huike Dashi
(2d patriarch of Chinese Chan) He was a Chinese monk, pupil of Bodhidharma.

達摩大師 Damo Dashi
(Bodhidharma ?-532, First patriarch of Chinese Chan) Bodhidharma is seated on a large chair made of tree branches, placed under a gnarled old pine tree, overgrown with creeping vines. Bodhidharma as here portrayed differs from the usual later representations in being more slightly built and in lacking the hairiness which ordinarily distinguishes him.
Before the Master, on a draped table, rests a tray which contains Huike's arm wrapped in cloth, while Huike, his left arm gone, stands respectfully on the right of Bodhidharma's chair. Bodhidharma is seated with his legs crossed and holds in his left hand a garment, intended for the mantle which formed with the Buddha's begging bowl the insignia of the patriarchate. Two episodes in Huike's career are thus, in the manner common to Oriental and Mediaeval Western artists, combined in a single composition. Huike, refused by Bodhidharma, persisted, remaining outside his door during a snowstorm; and when even then he was not admitted, he cut off his arm and sent it in to the Master as a token of his sincerity. He was accepted and became Bodhidharma's pupil. A peacock is perched on a limb of the old pine, while its mate is seen below, in front of Bodhidharma's chair.
Bodhidharma's image, so smooth and so slight, differs greatly from the later massive, hairy and glowering monk, who is his traditional image.

尊者阿難 Venerable Ananda
(primary attendant of the Buddha)

Kassapa is seated on a rock in the midst of the same sea which extends in back of the thousand-petalled lotus of the previous frames. He is holding the mantle of the patriarchate - received from Śākyamuni himself - in both hands. His lips are opened in the smile with which he is said to have received the essence of Buddhism (Chan) transmitted to him in silence by Śākyamuni. Beside him is a tall, narrow table on which are the top and bottom of a box, which is empty. His boots rest on the back of a beast lying curled up in front of the rock. To the left foreground is seen standing the smaller figure of a monk, with his hands in the añjali mudrā; he is Ananda, the second patriarch, who received the essence in his turn from Kassapa. In the background a very precipitous rocky coast rises from the sea.

尊者迦葉 Venerable Kassapa (one of the ancient Buddhas)