Lineage from "Transmission of Light"


Shakyamuni Buddha


Ancestors in India

  1. Mahakashyapa
  2. Ananda
  3. Shanavasin
  4. Upagupta
  5. Dhitika
  6. Mishaka
  7. Vasumitra
  8. Buddhanandi
  9. Buddhamitra
  10. Parshva
  11. Punyayasha
  12. Anabodhi
  13. Kipimala
  14. Nagarjuna
  15. Kanadeva
  16. Rahulabhadra
  17. Samghanandi
  18. Samghayathata
  19. Kumaralata
  20. Shayata
  21. Vasubandhu
  22. Manorata
  23. Haklenayasha
  24. Simhabodhi
  25. Bashashita
  26. Punyamitra
  27. Prajnadhara
  28. Bodhidharma

Ancestors in China

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  1. Bodhidharma
  2. Hui-k'o
  3. Seng-ts'an
  4. Tao-hsin
  5. Hung-jen
  6. Hui-neng



THE BUDDHA AND THE QUALITIES OF A DHARMA TEACHER




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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FOR MORE ON LINEAGE SEE ALSO:


T'ANG CH'AN AND THE MYTH OF BODHIDHARMA

ZEN BUDDHISM: Outside the Scriptures


CH'AN & ZEN LINEAGES


ZEN ANCESTORS



FOR MORE ON TEACHERS AND GURUS SEE:
THE GATE KEEPER'S LIST OF SPIRITUAL TEACHERS