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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 monastic "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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Title	Speaker	Date
Continuous Compassion for Karmic Consciousness Karmic Consciousness, Confession-and-Repentance, Repentance, Transmission	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Feb 06 2010 Afternoon No Abode Hermitage
Meditation-Wisdom & the Platform Sutra Serial: TL-00203 ADZG Sunday Morning, Dharma Talk Concentration, Platform Sutra, Oneness, Transmission	Taigen Dan Leighton	Jan 10 2010 Ancient Dragon Zen Gate
Women's Practice Intimacy, Attachment, Lineage, Transmission, Monastic Practice, Dharma Transmission,...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Jan 09 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
The Sixth Ancestor's Original Face Serial: TL-00202 ADZG Monday Night, Dharma Talk Dharma Transmission, Faith, Transmission, Evil, Discrimination	Taigen Dan Leighton	Jan 04 2010 Ancient Dragon Zen Gate
Everything is Presenting Itself Serial: BZ-02070 Consciousness, Rohatsu Day 3 Intimacy, Culture, Dharma Transmission, Heart Sutra, Tassajara, Precepts, Gratitude,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Wind Of The House Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Commitment, confusion, Transmission, Mahayana,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 10 2009
Hokyo Zammai IV Serial: BZ-02057 Hobo = Dharma Bum, Sesshin Day 2, class 4 of 4 Hakuin, Sekito Kisen, Tozan, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Five Ranks, Nirvana Sutra, Ego,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 07 2009 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Hokyo Zammai I Serial: BZ-02054 Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi, Sesshin Day 1, class 1 of 4 Five Ranks, Tozan, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Five Ranks, Passions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 06 2009 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Suzuki Roshi Symposium, Side F Serial: BZ-01549F Morning discussion with panelists and audience Commitment, Culture, Transmission, Religion, Lineage, Conversation, Priest, Zazen...	Gil Fronsdal, Myoan Grace Schireson, Jeff Wilson	Aug 29 2009 6 University of California at Berkeley
Suzuki Roshi Symposium, Side G Serial: BZ-01549G Session 4: Where Are We Now? Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Lineage, Ordination, Soto Zen, Priest, Culture,...	Norman Fischer, Victor Hori, Lew Richmond	Aug 29 2009 7 University of California at Berkeley
Suzuki Roshi Symposium, Side H Serial: BZ-01549H Last talk of afternoon session and discussion with panelists and audience Soto Zen, Monastic Practice, Transmission, Blue Cliff Record, Culture, Religion, Four...	Robert Sharf and rest of panelists	Aug 29 2009 8 University of California at Berkeley
Suzuki Roshi Symposium, Side B Serial: BZ-01549B End of Panel Discussion of The Zen Mission to America including discussion by panelists and audience War, Culture, Building, Lay Practice, Transmission, Peace, Funeral	Sojun Mel Weitsman, rest of morning speakers	Aug 28 2009 2 San Francisco Zen Center
Suzuki Roshi Symposium, Side D Serial: BZ-01549D Afternoon discussion by panelists and audience Cultivation, Conversation, Don't Know Mind, Transmission, Fundraising,...	Wendy Adamek, Edward Brown, Yvonne Rand	Aug 28 2009 4 San Francisco Zen Center
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness Mindfulness, Posture, Hindrances, Anger, Priest, Concentration, Subject-and-Object,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Aug 08 2009
Growing Up Composure, Discrimination, Non-discrimination, Priest, Silence, Passions,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jul 25 2009
The Swastika as Mandala Serial: BZ-02046 Sesshin Day 5 Politics, Evil, Happiness, Mandala, Interview, Transmission, Hate, Offering, Religion...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 21 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Class 5 Absorption In The Treasury Of Light Subject-and-Object, Cultivation, Transmission, Manjushri, Lotus Sutra, Religion,...		Jun 11 2009
More Light Ordinary Mind, Light-and-Darkness, Darkness-and-Light, Transmission, Practice Period...	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 23 2009
Class 2 Komyo Divine Light Transmission, Current Events, Silent Illumination, Discrimination, Conversation,...		May 21 2009
Causation and Non-Self Causation, Transmission	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Apr 23 2009 The Yoga Room
Zazen Fukanzazengi Instruction, Posture, Book of Serenity, Buddha Mind, Dharma Transmission, Composure,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Mar 01 2009
This Little Light of Mine: Serial No. 01093, Side B Serial: BZ-01093B Includes Kid Zendo Lineage, Continuous Practice, Offering, Funeral, Gratitude, Equanimity, Transmission...	Ross Blum	Feb 21 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
This Little Light of Mine Offering, Lineage, Continuous Practice, Funeral, Gratitude, Transmission,...	Ross Blum	Feb 21 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Tao Wu's Condolence Call: Blue Cliff Record Case 55: Serial No. 01092 Serial: BZ-01092 Sesshin Birth-and-Death, Duality, Offering, Funeral, Silence, Mahayana, Transmission,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Feb 15 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Ryokan's Poems - Butterfly Dreams Serial: BZ-02013 Part 1 of 2, teaching retreat Discrimination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Enemies, Transmission, Evil, Precepts...	Shohaku Okumura	Jan 24 2009 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra: Irritation with Sesshin, helping vs. criticizing: Serial No. 01078 Serial: BZ-01078 Rohatsu Day 2, Side B Nirvana Sutra, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Don...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng: Irritation with Sesshin, helping vs. criticizing Serial: BZ-01183 Rohatsu Day 2 Transmission, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Buddha Nature, Don...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng Serial: BZ-02005 Irritation during sesshin/helping versus Criticizing, Rohatsu Day 2 Hui Neng, Transmission, Buddha Nature, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana Sutra, Dharma...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng Serial: BZ-01453 Rohatsu Day 1 Buddha Nature, Buddha Ancestors, Don't Know Mind, Ordination, Big Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 07 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng Serial: BZ-02004 Rohatsu Day 1 Hui Neng, Buddha Nature, Buddha Ancestors, Platform Sutra, Don't Know Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 07 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Ordinary Mind is the Way: Mumonkan Case 19 Ordinary Mind, MM-19, Nansen, Joshu, Ordinary Mind, Dharma Transmission, Intuition,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 22 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Ordinary Mind is the Way Serial: BZ-02003 Mumonkan No. 19, Saturday Lecture MM-19, Ordinary Mind, Dharma Transmission, Intuition, Gaining Mind, confusion,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 22 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Maylie Scott: Life and Death Serial: BZ-01131 Seven Year Memorial Day Reminiscence Birth-and-Death, Priest, Building, Dharma Transmission, Lay, Liberation, Transmission...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 10 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
3 Topics: Takuhatsu, Identity Action, Ryokan Plays with Children Serial: BZ-01110 Part 1 of 2 teaching retreat Separation, Soto Zen, Gratitude, Mahayana, Transmission, Discrimination, Fasting,...	Shohaku Okumura	Jan 26 2008 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #61 Serial: BZ-01002 Raising a Particle of Dust, Saturday Lecture Sangha, Community, BCR-61, Dragons, Soto Zen, Teacher-and-Student, Silence, Lineage,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 06 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
“Menju” (Face to Face Transmission): From Moon in a Dew Drop, Writings of Zen Master Dogen Serial: BZ-00998B Saturday Lecture Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Lineage, Buddha Ancestors, Bodhidharma, Dharma...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Sep 08 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
The Mind of the Great Sage of India Satipatthana Sutra, Theravada, Zazen, Big Mind, Four Noble Truths, Realization,...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Jul 10 2007 City Center
Check The Messenger Within Serial: SF-00994 Strategies, gaining ideas; "paying it forward"; close investigation of the self; Orpheus and Eurydice; Rilke; hidden anger - staying with the emotion Dongshan, Sesshin, Suzuki Roshi, Monkey Mind, Vow, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Manjushri...	Myogen Steve Stücky	Apr 05 2007 Green Gulch Farm
Dogen's Acupuncture Point of Zazen: Beating the cart or beating the horse Serial: BZ-01423 Saturday Lecture Zazenshin, Dogen, Lineage, Separation, Dharma Transmission, Dogen, Transmission,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 03 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
The Gift of Nothing Serial: SF-00929 Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: one who is not busy, one reality; the gift of nothing; sesshin, from Suzuki Roshi; our mind is the same as Buddha's; all things are... Buddha's Enlightenment, Sesshin, Koan, Daowu, Keizan, Suzuki Roshi, Nirvana...	Fu Schroeder	Dec 03 2006 Green Gulch Farm
Eventual Transition of Abbacy Serial: BZ-01389 Practice Positions Complete Practice; Small and Large Equal, Saturday Lecture Practice Position, Transmission, Practice Position, Dharma Transmission, Ego,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 30 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Women’s Practice: Falling into the *** Hole Serial: BZ-01388 Women's Sitting Intimacy, Dharma Transmission, Blue Cliff Record, Lineage, Transmission, Lotus Sutra...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Sep 24 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Practicing the Way Wholeheartedly: Commentary on Dogen’s Bendowa Serial: BZ-01387 Saturday Lecture Transmission, New Year, Lay, Lineage, Buddha Mind, Chanting, Discrimination, Uchiyama...	Raul Denkei Moncayo	Sep 23 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Shining Practice: Growing up in a Zendo (Kid Zendo) Serial: BZ-01386 Saturday Lecture Bell, Family Practice, Transmission, Offering, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission...	Shosan Victoria Austin	Sep 16 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #55: “Alive or Dead?” Remembering John King Serial: BZ-01178 Saturday Lecture Death-and-Dying, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara, Practice Period, Anger, Ego, Patience...	Mary Mocine	Aug 12 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Why Become Abbot of Zen Center? Practice Period, Precepts, Gratitude, Vow, Commitment, Bell, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony,...	Myogen Steve Stücky	Aug 09 2006 Unknown
Spirit of Shuso Ceremony Serial: BZ-01170 Sesshin Day 5 Shuso Ceremony, Teacher-and-Student, Intuition, Dharma Transmission, Emotions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 18 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Lay Ordination Serial: BZ-01239 Tradition of Sewing Buddha's Robe, Saturday Lecture Lay Ordination, Sewing, Joshin-san, Precepts, Priest, Ordination, Lay, Commitment,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 10 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
History of Berkeley Zen Center Pt. II Serial: BZ-01222B Kid Zendo: Figures on the Altar, Saturday Lecture Teacher-and-Student, Dharma Transmission, Priest, Transmission, Daily Life, Practice...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 18 2006 Berkeley Zen Center

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