Dharma transmission
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title:
Dharma transmission
text:
Inka Shōmei 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
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Spiritual teacher-disciple lineage in Zen-Buddhism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_transmission
date created:
2005-01-12T02:30:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T03:31:30Z
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