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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
Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman Serial: BZ-00068 Interview 2 of 3 confusion, Dharma Transmission, Lay, Ordination, Precepts, Priest, Priest-and-Lay,...	Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 05 2001 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Women Ancestors Class Serial: BZ-00853 Class 2 of 4 Silent Illumination, Lineage, Doubt, Dharma Transmission, Buddha's Birthday,...	Mary Mocine, Myoan Grace Schireson	Jul 13 2000 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Women Ancestors Serial: BZ-00164 Evening lecture Rinzai, Lineage, Transmission, Fox, Dharma Transmission, Lotus Sutra, Doubt, Teacher-...	Miriam Levering	May 18 2000 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, Bell, Dharma Transmission, Greed, Lineage, Ordination, Priest...	Steve Weintraub	Oct 23 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s Bendowa “Zen Mind, Urban Mind”: Everything is the Way Monastic Practice, Half-Smile, Passions, Practice Period, Buddha Mind, Dharma...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Oct 09 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Commentary Serial: BZ-00158A Saturday Lecture Part 6 of 8 Genjokoan, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Discrimination, Don't...	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, Discrimination, Don't Know Mind,...		Jul 10 1999
Thoughts on Modern Western Buddhist Practice Commitment, Dharma Transmission, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Practice Position,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 15 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Seccho and Her Spirit are Separated Anger, Chanting, Dharma Transmission, Ordination, Peace, Practice Period, Sangha,...	Maylie Scott	Apr 11 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Zazengi (Pt. 1) Serial: BZ-00070A Saturday Lecture Zazengi, Birth-and-Death, Posture, Buddha Ancestors, Sixth Patriarch, Concentration,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 27 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
2nd Precept: Take Not What is Not Given Conversation, Dependent Origination, Dharma Transmission, Instruction, Liberation,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Nov 21 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
One Continuous Life Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Lay Ordination, Priest,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 10 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Way Seeking Mind/Dharma Entrustment Serial: BZ-01068 Saturday Lecture Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Precepts, Tassajara, Bowing, Religion, Priest,...	Maylie Scott	Oct 03 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
October 3rd, 1998, Serial No. 00439, Side B Serial: BZ-00439B #duplicate-please-hide Bell, Building, Dharma Transmission, Offering, Precepts, Priest, Religion, Tassajara...		Oct 03 1998
Dharma Transmission Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Practice Period, Lineage, Tassajara, Priest,...	Maylie Scott, Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 19 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Keeping Precepts: Vows Anger, Dharma Transmission, New Year, Obstacles, Offering, Rinzai, Teacher-and-...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Sep 12 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Practice Period Commitment Serial: BZ-00362B Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Practice Period, Commitment, Precepts, Dharma Transmission,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 26 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Backdrop of Our Life; Emptiness Dharma Transmission, Emotions, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Happiness, Heart...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 15 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Ordination Serial: BZ-00787A Saturday Lecture Ordination, Priest, Ordination, Lay, Precepts, Practice Period, Family Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 16 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Encouraging Words from Hongzhi Serial: BZ-00794B Sesshin Day 1 Hongzhi, Silent Illumination, Dharma Transmission, Discrimination, Duality, Happiness...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 31 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #18 Blue Cliff Record, Dharma Transmission, Duality, First Principle, Lineage, Non-...	Steve Proskauer	Jun 29 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan: Case #25 Serial: BZ-00803B Hui Neng Bed & Bowl, Saturday Lecture Hui Neng, MM-25, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Evil, Instruction, Lay, Platform...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 25 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra Serial: BZ-00250 Class 2 of 9 Attachment, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Don't Know Mind, Sixth Patriarch...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 24 1996 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Vimalakirti Sutra Serial: BZ-00245 Class 2 of 5 Liberation, Vow, Silence, Dharma Transmission, Mahayana, Heart Sutra, Evil, New Year...	Maylie Scott	Mar 07 1996 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Body, Breath, Mind, Stick Serial: BZ-00821B Saturday Lecture Kyosaku, Posture, Concentration, Right Effort, Harmonizing, Bodhisattva Ceremony,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 08 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Bodhisattva Practice Chanting, Dharma Transmission, Lay Ordination, Offering, Ordination, Right Speech,...	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, Lineage,...	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
Mountain Practice/Broom Practice Dharma Transmission, Happiness, Liberation, Lineage, Peace, Posture, Vow	Myogen Steve Stücky	Apr 01 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Book of Serenity Serial: BZ-00236 Class 3 of 5 Bodhidharma, Dharma Transmission, Discrimination, Intuition, Offering, Passions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 19 1994 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Book of Serenity Serial: BZ-00234 Class 1 of 5 Manjushri, Book of Serenity, Big Mind, First Principle, Observe, Discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 05 1994 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Essence of Zen Serial: BZ-00225 Class 1of 3 Religion, Four Noble Truths, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Practice Period, War...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Feb 16 1994 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan Case 15: Seeing Truth; Ordination and Dharma Transmission—Ordinariness Serial: BZ-00981B Lecture Bodhisattva Ceremony, Conversation, Culture, Dharma Transmission, Heart Sutra, Mill...	Myogen Steve Stücky	Jan 29 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra Serial: BZ-00559 Class 2 of 10 Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Duality, Ego, Evil, Lotus Sutra, Non-duality,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 19 1994 2 Tassajara
What We Bring to Practice: Dharma Transmission, Being on the Path; Waking Up; How’s it Feel Serial: BZ-00658A Lecture Concentration, Dharma Transmission, Lay Ordination, Mindfulness, Ordination, Priest,...	Steve Weintraub	Oct 16 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Transmission of Light Serial: BZ-00219 Class 4 of 5 Buddha Nature, Offering, Evil, Eight Awarenesses, Lineage, Buddha Ancestors, Duality...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 27 1993 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #1: Bodhidharma’s Coming from the West Serial: BZ-00665A Lecture Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma, Buddha Mind, Dharma Transmission, Family Practice,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 08 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Ten Precepts: Tenth Precept Serial: BZ-00621 Class 6 of 6 Precepts, Vow, Practice Period, Dharma Transmission, Renunciation, Repentance, Evil,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Feb 18 1993 6 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Dogen's Kajo Fascicle in Shogobenzo Continued Serial: BZ-00637A Sesshin Day 3 Dogen, Shobogenzo, Bowing, Buddha Ancestors, Building, Dharma Transmission, Doubt,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 07 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Transmission of Light Serial: BZ-00213 Class 2 of 5 Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Lotus Sutra, Manjushri, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 13 1992 2 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
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
The Fire, Suffering, and Relationship With Japan Serial: BZ-00702B Saturday Lecture Japan, Current Events, Practice Period, Tassajara, Demons, Birth-and-Death, Dharma...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 26 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Tozan's Five Ranks Serial: BZ-00625 Lecture Absolute-and-Relative, Dharma Transmission, Five Ranks, Gratitude, Manjushri, Sixth...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 19 1991 Tassajara
Practices in Everyday Life Serial: BZ-00694A Lecture Cultivation, Culture, Dharma Transmission, Enemies, Liberation, Monastic Practice,...	Yvonne Rand	Aug 24 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00967A Sesshin Day 3 lecture Building, Dharma Transmission, New Year, Priest, Transmission, War	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
October 6th, 1990, Serial No. 01479 Book of Serenity, Daily Life, Dharma Transmission, Gratitude, Rinzai, Samadhi, Silent...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 06 1990 Tassajara

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