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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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Title	Speaker	Date
A Reworking of the Prajna Paramita Sutra in 8000 Lines Serial: BZ-00666A Lecture Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Heart Sutra, Buddha Mind, Subject-and-Object,...	Lex Hixon	May 17 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #1: Bodhidharma’s Coming from the West Serial: BZ-00665A Lecture Bodhidharma, Family Practice, Practice Period, Buddha Mind, Dharma Transmission,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 08 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Transmission of Light Serial: BZ-00212 Class 1 of 5 true dharma, Monastic Practice, Transmission, Buddha Nature, Teacher-and-Student,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 06 1993 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Practicing with Flexible Mind within Forms: The Practice of Recovering Zazen Mind Serial: BZ-00649A Lecture Family Practice, Don't Know Mind, Fasting, training, Diversity, Sangha,...	Ekai Korematsu	Feb 27 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Iron Flute: Heat in Summer, Head Cold in Winter Serial: BZ-00643A The recording photo shows two titles. Getting Real: After Putting Another Head on Your Head Iron Flute: Heat in Summer, Head Cold in Winter... Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Transmission, Daily Life, Conversation,...	Edward Brown	Nov 14 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Day Off Class Serial: BZ-01484 Class 5 of 6 Precepts, Buddha Ancestors, Transmission, Silent Illumination, Buddha Nature, Current...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 14 1992 5
Day Off Class Serial: BZ-01480 Class 2 of 6 Dragons, Gaining Mind, Sixth Patriarch, Dharma Transmission, Subject-and-Object,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 14 1992 2
Paramitas: Sila (Virtue) and Kshanti (Patience) Serial: BZ-00612 Class 3 of 6 Anger, Precepts, Patience, Ordinary Mind, Enemies, Emotions, Dependent Origination,...	Maylie Scott	Oct 01 1992 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #44 Serial: BZ-00638A Hoshan's Knowing How to Beat the Drum, Saturday Lecture BCR-44, Daily Life, Attachment, Buddha Mind, Don't Know Mind, Teacher-and-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 19 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Kajo Fascicle in Shogobenzo Continued Serial: BZ-00637A Sesshin Day 3 Dogen, Shobogenzo, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission, Doubt, Building, Enthusiasm...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 07 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan Case #30: Baso’s This Very Mind is Buddha Serial: BZ-00633B Lecture Buddha Mind, stubbornness, Instruction, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Hate, Posture,...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Aug 01 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan Cases #30 & 33: Baso’s Two Responses: Buddha is Mind, Buddha is not Mind Serial: BZ-00708B Lecture Intuition, Culture, Transmission, Ordinary Mind, Subject-and-Object, Teacher-and-...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Jun 20 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Transmission of Light Serial: BZ-00213 Class 2 of 5 true dharma, Transmission, Nirvana, Dharma Transmission, Buddha Nature, Manjushri,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 13 1992 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Early Zen: Ungan to Tozan Serial: BZ-00604 Class 5 of 6 Heart Sutra, Book of Serenity, Blue Cliff Record, Lineage, Five Ranks, Transmission,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Apr 02 1992 5 Berkeley Zen Center
Early Zen: Bodhidharma to the Fifth Ancestor Serial: BZ-00602 Class 3 of 6 Bodhidharma, Lineage, Transmission, First Principle, Karma, Book of Serenity, Buddha...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Mar 19 1992 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Buddhism: Precepts and Self/No Self Serial: BZ-00280 Class 3 of 5 Right Speech, Four Foundations, Bell, Precepts, Mindfulness, Right Effort, Karma,...	Fran Tribe	Jan 30 1992 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Tozan's Five Ranks Serial: BZ-00732 Sesshin Day 4 Concentration, Religion, Absolute-and-Relative, Doubt, Mindfulness, Transmission,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 16 1991
Tozan's Five Ranks Serial: BZ-00728 Class Two, Class Five Ranks, Ego, Platform Sutra, Separation, Sixth Patriarch, Absolute-and-Relative,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 15 1991
The Fire, Suffering, and Relationship With Japan Serial: BZ-00702B Saturday Lecture Japan, Current Events, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Demons, Birth-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 26 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Tozan's Five Ranks Serial: BZ-00625 Lecture Gratitude, Five Ranks, Sixth Patriarch, Absolute-and-Relative, Manjushri, Dharma...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 19 1991 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Early Days of Suzuki-rôshi Serial: BZ-00750B Tokubetsu Sesshin: Japanese and American, Saturday Lecture Suzuki Roshi, Sesshin, Tokubetsu, Practice Period, American, Transmission, training,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 28 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Saturday Lecture Precepts, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Sep 21 1991 Unknown
Practices in Everyday Life Serial: BZ-00694A Lecture Cultivation, Culture, Monastic Practice, Right Speech, Bodhisattva Vow, Dharma...	Yvonne Rand	Aug 24 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00967A Sesshin Day 3 lecture New Year, Dharma Transmission, War, Transmission, American, Building, training,...	Hoitsu Suzuki Roshi	Jun 28 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan: Case #23 Serial: BZ-00692B "Neither Good Not Evil;" Intentions, Humbleness, Saturday Lecture Humility, MM-23, Sixth Patriarch, Humility, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Dharma Transmission...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 30 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Serial: BZ-00697B Rohatsu Day 5 Transmission, Birth-and-Death, Separation, Dragons, Hindrances, Religion, Peace,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 06 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Gospel of John Class Serial: NC-00275 Monastic formation class on the Gospel of John OSB Cam, Funeral, Transmission, Diversity, Happiness, Separation	Bruno Barnhart	Sep 29 1990 3 of 4 New Camaldoli Hermitage
Big Emptiness and Small Emptiness Serial: BZ-00516B Saturday Lecture Emptiness, Sixth Patriarch, Dharma Transmission, Teacher-and-Student, Lineage,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 25 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Eulogy for Katagiri Roshi Serial: BZ-00509B Lecture Lotus Sutra, Patience, Constancy, Transmission, Monastic Practice, Dharma...	Michael Wenger	Apr 14 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Remembrances of Maurine Stuart Serial: BZ-00510B Lecture Lotus Sutra, Berkeley Zen Center, Anger, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Gratitude,...	Maylie Scott	Mar 25 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Taking Refuge Sangha, Three Treasures, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Precepts, Transmission,...	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jan 10 1990
Abbot's Zuisse Ceremony in Japan Serial: BZ-00385 Saturday Lecture Zuisse, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Practice Period, Soto Zen, Study Period,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 28 1989 Berkeley Zen Center
Dzögchen Teachings Serial: SF-02719B Commercially produced cassette Transmission, New Year, Non-duality, Samsara, Nirvana, Karma, Freedom	His Holiness The Dalai Lama	Oct 09 1989 San Jose
Dzögchen Teachings Serial: SF-02715 Commercially produced cassette Emptiness, realization, Subject-and-Object, Mindfulness, Transmission, Samsara,...	His Holiness The Dalai Lama	Oct 09 1989 San Jose
Dzögchen Teachings Serial: SF-02716 Commercially produced cassette Bodhisattva Vow, Emptiness, Transmission, Commitment, Vow, Current Events, Lineage,...	His Holiness The Dalai Lama	Oct 09 1989 San Jose
Dzogchen Teachings Emptiness, realization, Transmission, Lineage, Mandala, training, Religion,...	His Holiness The Dalai Lama	Oct 08 1989 4 San Jose
Dzogchen Teachings Transmission, Four Noble Truths, Doubt, Peace, Don't Know Mind, Daily Life,...	His Holiness The Dalai Lama	Oct 08 1989 1 San Jose
Dzogchen Teachings Happiness, Delusion, Four Noble Truths, Transmission, Dependent Origination, Karma,...	His Holiness The Dalai Lama	Oct 08 1989 2 San Jose
September 11th, 1989, Serial No. 04068 realization, Hsin Hsin Ming, Buddha Nature, Lay, Samadhi, Evil, Transmission,...	Robert Aitken Roshi	Sep 11 1989 Green Gulch
Going Beyond Limitations Blue Cliff Record, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Nature, First Principle, Dharma Transmission...	Yvonne Rand	Aug 28 1989 Green Gulch
August 11th, 1989, Serial No. 04067 Serial: SF-04067 Duplicate realization, Buddha Nature, Hsin Hsin Ming, Evil, Lay, Samadhi, Transmission,...	Robert Aitken Roshi	Aug 11 1989 Green Gulch
Lion's Roar Lineage, Liberation, Letting Go, realization, Teacher-and-Student, Buddha Nature,...	Unknown	Dec 29 1988 SFZC
Lion's Roar Emptiness, Letting Go, Teacher-and-Student, Liberation, confusion, Transmission,...	Unknown	Dec 27 1988 SFZC
Ngondro Serial: SF-01878 Ngondro Class - Guru Yoga Lineage, Samsara, Emotions, Emptiness, Transmission, Attachment, realization, Buddha...	Unknown	Dec 20 1988 SFZC
December 10th, 1988, Serial No. 01056 Buddha Nature, Nirvana Sutra, Concentration, Intimacy, Posture, Fundraising, Faith,...	Katherine Thanas	Dec 10 1988 SFZC
December 10th, 1988, Serial No. 01493 Serial: BZ-01493 Third day of the Rohatsu sesshin at Tassajara. Genjokoan, Buddha Nature, Concentration, Ego, Attachment, Humility, Beginners,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 10 1988 3 of 7 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
November 25th, 1988, Serial No. 01912 Instruction, Liberation, training, Samsara, Six Realms, Birth-and-Death, Karma,...	Sogyal Rinpoche	Nov 25 1988 SFZC
Ngondro Serial: SF-01954 Side A: Class 4 #2 Side B: Class 5 #1 11/22/88 Lineage, Transmission	Unknown	Nov 22 1988 Unknown
Ngondro Lineage, confusion, realization, Teacher-and-Student, Emptiness, Nirvana Sutra,...	Unknown	Nov 01 1988 SFZC
Title Unknown Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Priest, Practice Period, Lay, Lay Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 13 1988 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

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