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Dharma transmission, in Zen and Chan Buddhism, 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
Lay Ordination Serial: BZ-00149B Saturday Lecture Lay Ordination, Precepts, Ordination, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Way, Buddha...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 15 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Instructions for the Cook: Tenzo Kyokun Serial: BZ-00453 Class 5 of 5 Teacher-and-Student, Six Realms, Demons, Continuous Practice, Big Mind, Karmic...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 13 2002 5 Berkeley Zen Center
June 13th, 2002, Serial No. 01014, Side A Teacher-and-Student, Six Realms, Demons, Big Mind, Karmic Consequences, Continuous...		Jun 13 2002
The Precepts Serial: BZ-00445 Class 1 of 4 Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Ordination, Transmission, Patience, Interview,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Apr 11 2002 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Genzo-e Nirvana, Monastic Practice, Ceremony, Transmission, Karma, Vinaya	Shohaku Okumura	Mar 09 2002 1
Dogen’s Kokyo: The Eternal Mirror Serial: BZ-00473 Class 1 of 4 Separation, Diversity, Politics, Transmission	Robert Rosenbaum	Jan 24 2002 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Aspects of Practice: Lineage Serial: BZ-00475 Class 3 of 4 Birth-and-Death, Branching Streams, Eight Awarenesses, Four Noble Truths, New Year,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Oct 18 2001 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Aspects of Practice Serial: BZ-00476 Class 2 of 4 Bodhisattva Ceremony, Buddha Ancestors, Doubt, Ordination, Teacher-and-Student,...	David Weinberg	Oct 11 2001 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Study as Practice Serial: BZ-00088A Lecture Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma, Book of Serenity, Dharma Transmission, Four...	Lee DeBarros	Aug 25 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman Serial: BZ-00068 Interview 2 of 3 Dharma Transmission, Lay Practice, Ordination, Precepts, Priest, Priest-and-Lay,...	Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 05 2001 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman Serial: BZ-00128 Interview 1 of 3 Dharma Transmission, Interview, Ordination, Priest, Transmission	Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 05 2001 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjo Koan Serial: SF-00117 Workshop Nirvana, Transmission, Karma, Soto Zen, Dharma Transmission, Five Ranks, Politics...	Shohaku Okumura	Nov 04 2000 1 of 4 City Center
Sokoji Bowing, Branching Streams, Family Practice, New Year, Priest, Transmission	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 30 2000
Women Ancestors Class Serial: BZ-00851 Class 4 of 4 Transmission, Dragons, Heart Sutra, Buddha Nature, Conversation, Duality, Ego...	Mary Mocine, Myoan Grace Schireson	Jul 27 2000 4 Berkeley Zen Center
The Sixth Precept "No Fault Finding" Serial: BZ-00059 Saturday Lecture Precepts, Big Mind, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Daily Life, Hate, Non-duality, Transmission...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 15 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Interview of Sojun Don't Know Mind, Doubt, Conversation, Hate, Manjushri, Transmission	Sojun Mel Weitsman, Michael Killigrew	Jun 12 2000
Women Ancestors Serial: BZ-00164 Evening lecture Rinzai, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Lotus Sutra, Doubt, Teacher-and-Student,...	Miriam Levering	May 18 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Women Ancestors Transmission, Soto Zen, Realization, Priest-and-Lay, Emptiness, Ceremony, Demons,...	Various	May 13 2000 1
Dogen’s Writings: Commentary on “Enlightenment Unfolds” Serial: BZ-00926 Class 1 of 4 Buddha Ancestors, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, Karma, Transmission, Teacher-and-...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Feb 03 2000 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Shuso’s Encouragement Talk Serial: BZ-00200B Rohatsu Day 5 Big Mind, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Ego, Patience, Practice Period...	Richard Haefele	Dec 03 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00200A Zendo Behavior, Rohatsu Day 4 Sandokai, Big Mind, Branching Streams, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Duality,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen is Feeling Life Absolute-and-Relative, Dharma Transmission, Ordination, Priest, Transmission, War...	Steve Weintraub	Oct 23 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
August 7th, 1999, Serial No. 00191, Side B Buddha Nature, Subject-and-Object, Daily Life, Separation, Transmission, Duality,...		Aug 07 1999
Genjokoan (Pt. 8/8) Serial: BZ-00674B “The place is lost; from here the Way unfolds”, Saturday Lecture Genjokoan, Subject-and-Object, Buddha Nature, Daily Life, Bodhidharma, Separation,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 07 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Commentary Serial: BZ-00158A Saturday Lecture Part 6 of 8 Genjokoan, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Don't Know Mind, Ego,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 10 1999 6 Berkeley Zen Center
July 10th, 1999, Serial No. 00752, Side B Serial: BZ-00752B #duplicate-please-hide Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Don't Know Mind, Non-...		Jul 10 1999
Thoughts on Modern Western Buddhist Practice Dharma Transmission, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Dharma Position, Precepts, Priest...	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 15 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Seccho and Her Spirit are Separated Chanting, Dharma Transmission, Ordination, Practice Period, Sangha, Transmission, War...	Maylie Scott	Apr 11 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Authentic Zen: Beyond Enlightenment Myths Suzuki Roshi, Priest, Transmission, Blue Cliff Record, Interview, Soto Zen, Book of...	Chikudo Lew Richmond	Dec 16 1998 City Center
Dogen's Guidelines For Studying The Way (Pt.2) Serial: BZ-00188A Saturday Lecture Dogen, Buddha Nature, Continuous Practice, Hindrances, Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, New...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 12 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Impermanence, Vow and Sojun Birth-and-Death, Doubt, Obstacles, Karma, Transmission, Repentance, Gratitude,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Dec 02 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
One Continuous Life Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Lay Ordination, Priest,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 10 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
October 3rd, 1998, Serial No. 00439, Side B Serial: BZ-00439B #duplicate-please-hide Dharma Transmission, Precepts, Priest, Tassajara, Transmission		Oct 03 1998
Way Seeking Mind/Dharma Entrustment Serial: BZ-01068 Saturday Lecture Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Precepts, Tassajara, Bowing, Priest	Maylie Scott	Oct 03 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Dharma Transmission Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Practice Period, Tassajara, Priest, Teacher-and-...	Maylie Scott, Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 19 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Keeping Precepts: Vows Dharma Transmission, New Year, Obstacles, Rinzai, Teacher-and-Student, Transmission...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Sep 12 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
How Can We Live The Next 10,000 Years? Transmission, Fasting, Politics, Gratitude	Kazuaki Tanahashi	Sep 10 1997
Practice Period Commitment Serial: BZ-00362B Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Practice Period, Precepts, Dharma Transmission, Ordination, Priest,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 26 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Ordination Serial: BZ-00787A Saturday Lecture Ordination, Priest, Ordination, Lay Practice, Precepts, Practice Period, Family...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 16 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #18 Blue Cliff Record, Dharma Transmission, Duality, First Principle, Non-duality,...	Steve Proskauer	Jun 29 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan: Case # 29 Serial: BZ-00802A Hui Neng "Mind That Moves"; Intentionality, Saturday Lecture Hui-neng, MM-29, Diversity, Hui-neng, Subject-and-Object, Teacher-and-Student, Big...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 01 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan: Case #25 Serial: BZ-00803B Hui Neng Bed & Bowl, Saturday Lecture Hui-neng, MM-25, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Lay Practice, Platform Sutra,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 25 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra Serial: BZ-00250 Class 2 of 9 Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Don't Know Mind, Hui-neng, Transmission, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 24 1996 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Fearlessness - What Is It? Intimacy, Birth-and-Death, Transmission, Absolute-and-Relative, Realization, Ceremony...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Mar 02 1996 Tassajara
Fukanzazengi Four Noble Truths, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Duality, Non-duality, Transmission...	Ron Nestor	Oct 14 1995
Bodhisattva Practice Chanting, Dharma Transmission, Lay Ordination, Ordination, Right Speech, Transmission...	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 21 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Tassajara Practice Period Serial: BZ-00909B Saturday Lecture Tassajara, Buddha's Birthday, Dharma Transmission, Family Practice, Practice...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 15 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Takubetsu Sesshin Serial: BZ-00743 Sesshin Dharma Transmission, Gratitude, Intimacy, Monastic Practice, Priest, Soto Zen,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 05 1995 Green Gulch Farm
Tokubetsu Sesshin Realization, Gratitude, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Sangha, Dragons	Tenshin Fletcher	Apr 04 1995
Tokubetsu Sesshin Ceremony, Transmission, Absolute-and-Relative, Teacher-and-Student, Dharma...	John Daido Loori	Apr 03 1995

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