Ancestors in India
- Mahakashyapa
- Ananda
- Shanavasin
- Upagupta
- Dhitika
- Mishaka
- Vasumitra
- Buddhanandi
- Buddhamitra
- Parshva
- Punyayasha
- Anabodhi
- Kipimala
- Nagarjuna
- Kanadeva
- Rahulabhadra
- Samghanandi
- Samghayathata
- Kumaralata
- Shayata
- Vasubandhu
- Manorata
- Haklenayasha
- Simhabodhi
- Bashashita
- Punyamitra
- Prajnadhara
- Bodhidharma
Ancestors in China
(click here for synopsis on First Five)
- Bodhidharma
- Hui-k'o
- Seng-ts'an
- Tao-hsin
- Hung-jen
- Hui-neng
- Ch'ing-yüan
- Shih-t'ou Hsi-ch'ien
- Yüeh-shan
- Yün-yen
- Tung-shan
- Yün-chü
- Daopi
- Tongan
- Liang-shan
- Dayang
- Tousi
- Daokai
- Danxia
- Wkong
- Zongjue
- Zhijian
- Rujing
- Dogen
- Ejo
Fundamentally, our experience as experienced is not different from the Zen master's. Where
we differ is that we place a fog, a particular kind of conceptual overlay onto that experience
and then make an emotional investment in that overlay, taking it to be "real" in and of itself.

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