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The idea of a patriarchal lineage in Chan dates back to the epitaph for Fărú (法如 638–689), a disciple of the 5th patriarch, Daman Hongren (弘忍 601–674). In the Long Scroll of the Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices and the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks, Daoyu and Dazu Huike are the only explicitly identified disciples of Bodhidharma.
The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp (traditional Chinese: 景德傳燈錄; simplified Chinese: 景德传灯录; pinyin: Jǐngdé Chuándēnglù; Wade–Giles: Ching-te Ch'uan teng lu; Japanese: Keitoku Dentō-roku), often referred to as The Transmission of the Lamp, is a 30 volume work consisting of putative biographies of the Chan Buddhist and Zen Buddhist patriarchs and other ...
In Chan and Zen Buddhism, dharma transmission is a custom in which a person is established as a "successor in an unbroken lineage of teachers and disciples, a spiritual 'bloodline' theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself."
From its beginnings, Sōtō Zen has placed a strong emphasis on lineage and dharma transmission. [1] In time, dharma transmission became synonymous with the transmission of temple ownership. [ 2 ] This was changed by Manzan Dohaku (1636–1714), a Sōtō reformer, who...
Kechimyaku (血脈) is a Japanese term for a lineage chart in Zen Buddhism and some other Japanese schools, documenting the "bloodline" of succession of various masters or listing priests in a particular school. In Zen, the kechimyaku theoretically links a student to all previous generations back to the Buddha himself.
Shenhui was born in Xiangyang with the surname Gao (高). [3] He learned The Five Classics of Confucius and the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi at a young age. [5]At the age of 14 he became a monk under Huineng, a disciple of Hongren and the founder of the Southern School of Zen.
Diener, Michael S. (1991), THE SHAMBHALA DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM AND ZEN, Boston: Shambhala; Keizan (2003), Transmitting the light. Zen Master's Keizan's Denkoroku, Translated by Francis Dojun Cook, Boston: Wisdom Publications
The Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks Xù gāosēng zhuàn 續高僧傳 of Dàoxuān 道宣 (596-667) The Record of the Transmission of the Dharma-Jewel