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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' (kechimyaku) theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself." The dharma lineage reflects the importance of family-structures in ancient China, and forms a symbolic and ritual recreation of this system for the monastical "family".

In Rinzai-Zen, inka shōmei (印可証明) is ideally "the formal recognition of Zen's deepest realisation", but practically it is being used for the transmission of the "true lineage" of the masters (shike) of the training halls. There are only about fifty to eighty of such inka shōmei-bearers in Japan.

In Sōtō-Zen, dharma transmission is referred to as shiho, and further training is required to become an oshō.

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Transmitting the Light

Serial: BZ-00778

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Monastic Practice, Transmission, Teacher-and-Student, Continuous Practice, Buddha...

Unknown Date, Serial 00369

Transmission, Meditation, Happiness, Culture, Lineage, Monastic Practice, Liberation...

Unknown Date, Serial 00370

Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Emotions, Attachment, Constancy, Demons,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00376

Consciousness, Suffering, Impermanence, Ego, Letting Go, confusion, Right Speech,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00388

Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Letting Go, Attachment, Emotions,...

Frontiers of Wisdom

Serial: NC-00182

Part of "Frontiers of Wisdom"

Archival Photo

OSB Cam, Transmission, Darkness-and-Light, Buddhism, Balance
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Wisdom and History

Serial: NC-00666

Wisdom and History

OSB Cam, Buddhism, Transmission, Enlightenment, Realization
2 of 4

Unknown Date, Serial 00113

Mahayana, Silence, Vinaya, Nirvana Sutra, Transmission

Koinonia: Unity in Monastic Tradition

Building, Transmission
Mount Saviour Monastery

Unknown Talk, Serial 00291, Side B

Precepts, Buddha Nature, Priest, Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts, Ordination, Transmission...

Why Become Abbot of Zen Center?

Practice Period, Precepts, Gratitude, Vow, Commitment, Bell, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony,...
Unknown

Unknown year, February talk, Serial 00383

Anger, Ceremony, Evil, Greed, Transmission, Lay, Intimacy, Pain, Bodhidharma, Demons...
Feb 04

Faith as the Path to Understanding

OSB Cam, Enemies, Discrimination, Transmission, Happiness, Intimacy
Jun 22

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