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Leave Behind ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Welcome to your Lineage*.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! You are walking in the footsteps of the Buddha and the Ancestors.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! *All of these people were real people. They had strengths and weaknesses. They did much good. They made many mistakes. We hold the dharma in our hands because of the sacrifices they made for us every day – without ever having met us – we have a chance to meet them now. Let us open our hearts and minds and give deep thanks for the great gift they have !bestowed upon us. They are worthy of our love and respect and our deep appreciation. ! ! **All of this material is available to you freely on the web through Wikipedia, Google search and and standard sources. It is collected here simply so you can have a ready reference to the rushing stream you are about to step into. " Sunday, August 17, 2014 White Plum Asanga Lineage Page #1 of #54 ! White Plum Lineage! ! ! 1 Bibashi Butsu Daiosho! 2 Shiki Butsu Daiosho! 3 Bishafu Butsu Daiosho! 4 Kuruson Butsu Daiosho! 5 Kunagommuni Butsu Daiosho! 6 Kasho Butsu Daiosho! 7 Shakyamuni Butsu Daiosho ( 623 B.C. )! 8 Makakasho Daiosho! 9 Ananda Daiosho! 10 Shonawashu Daiosho! 11 Ubakikuta Daiosho! 12 Daitaka Daiosho! 13 Mishaka Daiosho! 14 Bashumitta Daiosho! 15 Butsudanandai Daiosho! 16 Fudamitta Daiosho! 17 Barishiba Daiosho! 18 Funayasha Daiosho! 19 Anabotei Daiosho! 20 Kabimora Daiosho! 21 Nagyaharajuna Daiosho! 22 Kanadaiba Daiosho! 23 Ragorata Daiosho! 24 Sogyanandai Daiosho! 25 Kayashata Daiosho! 26 Kumorata Daiosho! 27 Shayata Daiosho! 28 Bashubanzu Daiosho! 29 Manura Daiosho! 30 Kakurokuna Daiosho! 31 Shishibodai Daiosho! 32 Bashashita Daiosho! 33 Funyomitta Daiosho! 34 Hannyatara Daiosho! !35 Bodaidaruma Daiosho ( 5th Century A.D. )! 36 Taiso Eka Daiosho! 37 Kanchi Sosan Daiosho! 38 Dai-i Doshin Daiosho! 39 Daiman Konin Daiosho! 40 Daikan Eno Daiosho! 41 Seigen Gyoshi Daiosho! 42 Sekito Kisen Daiosho! 43 Yakusan Igen Daiosho! 44 Ungan Donjo Daiosho! Sunday, August 17, 2014 White Plum Asanga Lineage Page #2 of #54 45 Tozan Ryokai Daiosho! 46 Ungo Doyo Daiosho! 47 Doan Dohi Daiosho! 48 Doan Kanshi Daiosho! 49 Ryozan Enkan Daiosho! 50 Taiyo Kyogen Daiosho! 51 Toshi Gisei Daiosho! 52 Fuyo Dokai Daiosho! 53 Tanka Shijun Daiosho! 54 Choro Seiryo Daiosho! 55 Tendo Sokaku Daiosho! 56 Setcho Chikan Daiosho! !57 Tendo Nyojo Daiosho! 58 Eihei Dogen Daiosho ( 1200 - 1253 )! 59 Koun Ejo Daiosho! 60 Tettsu Gikai Daiosho! 61 Keizan Jokin Daiosho! 62 Gasan Joseki Daiosho! 63 Taigen Soshin Daiosho! 64 Baizan Monpon Daiosho! 65 Nyochu Tengin Daiosho! 66 Kisan Shosan Daiosho! 67 Morin Shihan Daiosho! 68 Taishi Sotai Daiosho! 69 Kenchu Hantetsu Daiosho! 70 Daiju Soko Daiosho! 71 Kinpo Jusen Daiosho! 72 Tetsu-ei Seiton Daiosho! 73 Shukoku Choton Daiosho! 74 Ketsuzan Tetsu-ei Daiosho! 75 Hoshi So-on Daiosho! 76 Goho Kai-on Daiosho! 77 Tenkei Denson Daiosho! 78 Zozan Monko Daiosho! 79 Niken Sekiryo Daiosho! 80 Reitan Roryo Daiosho! 81 Kakujo Tosai Daiosho! 82 Kakuan Ryogu Daiosho! 83 Ryokai Daibai Daiosho! 84 Ungan Guhaku Daiosho! 85 Bai-an Hakujun Daiosho! 86 Koun Taizan Daiosho ( 1931 - 1995 )! 87. Bernie Glassman Roshi! !88. Joan Halifax Roshi! ! ! ! Sunday, August 17, 2014 White Plum Asanga Lineage Page #3 of #54 ! Our Chinese Ancestors! ! ! Bodhidharma 菩提達磨祖師(西天廿八祖，東土初祖） AD-535! ! !Bodhidharma, founder of Zen in China.! Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk from southern India who lived during the early 5th !century and is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Zen to China.! Very little contemporary biographical information on Bodhidharma is extant, and subsequent accounts became layered with legend, but most accounts agree that he was from the southern region of India, born as a prince to a royal family. Bodhidharma left his kingdom after becoming a Buddhist monk and traveled through Southeast Asia !into Southern China and subsequently relocated northwards.! Bodhidharma as the 28th Patriarch of Buddhism in an uninterrupted line that extends all !the way back to the Buddha himself.! Bodhidharma: " Outwardly cease all involvements, inwardly have no coughing or sighing !in the mind --with your mind like a wall you can enter the Way."! ! Dazu Huike 慧可大祖禪師 （西天廿九祖．東土二祖）AD487-593! ! Huike also name Sengke(Chinese:僧可), is considered the Second Patriarch of !Chinese Chan or Zen and the twenty-ninth since Shakyamuni Buddha.! At age of forty, Huike met Bodhidharma at Shaolin Monastery. According to legend, when they first met, Bodhidharma refused to teach him, then Huike stood in the snow !outside Bodhidharma's cave all night until snow reached his kneels.! In the morning Bodhidharma asked him what does he look for? Huike replied that he hope Bodhidharma can compassionately teach him the way to "open the gate of the elixir, to liberate all setient beings". Bodhidharma rejected and said, "All buddhas' uncomparable wonderful dharma , must be attained through aeons of diligent practice, experience countless of difficulties and endure all the hardship. How can you hope for this profound and exquisite dharma with little virtue, little wisdom, a shallow heart and !an arrogant mind? It would be just a waste of effort."! After listening to this, to prove his resolve, Huike cut off his left arm and presented it to Bodhidharma as a token of his sincerity. It's said that, only then Bodhidharma accepted him as diciple.! Sunday, August 17, 2014 White Plum Asanga Lineage Page #4 of #54 ! !One day Huike told Bodhidharma, "My mind is not calm, please help me to pacify it."! !Bodhidharma replied,"Bring me your mind, and I will pacify for you."! !After quit a while, Huike answered, "I have sought for my mind, but cannot find it."! !Then Bodhidharma replied, "I have pacified your mind."! Huike studied with Bodhidharma for six years, learned the essence of the dharma. Before leaving China, Bodhidharma passed on the symbolic rope and bowl of !dharma succession, and also a copy of Lankavatara Sutra to Huike.! Later , at about AD534, Huike went to Yedu(鄴都, now in Hebei) to expound dharma. But his dharma was contradict to the teaching of other influential Buddhist masters there, because of this Huike faced a lot of trouble when preaching dharma, !including encountered assassination.! It's said that Huike lived to the age of one hundred seven. His dharma successor was Sengcan(僧璨).! ! Jianzhi Sengcan 《 Faith in Mind 》 僧璨鑑智禪師 （西天卅祖，東土三祖） !AD526-606! !Sêng-ts'an. The third patriarch in the lineage of the Chinese Zen Sect.! After Seng-ts'an received transmission, Buddhism was persecuted in China and he spent fifteen years wandering and hiding in the mountains. In the year 582 he met Tao- hsin, who was to become his pupil and thereupon the Fourth Patriach, and in this way the transmission of Zen continued. He died in 606. The Hsin-hsin-ming (Shinjimmei) !was written by him.! Dayi Daoxin 道信大醫禪師 （西天卅一祖，東土四祖）AD580-651! ! Fourth Patriarch Daoxin (580-651) was born the year before China was reunified after 350 years of turbulence. He is the first in the Chan (Chinese Zen) lineage to have settled stably at the same monastery (on Twin Peaks Mountain) for thirty years, and built a large following of disciples. The new dynasties, Sui and Tang, were both sympathetic to the free practice of religions; Emperor Tang Taizong invited the Master to the royal court four times (which he refused). The next 260 years may be considered the golden age of Buddhism as all the ten major traditions of Chinese Buddhism, !including Chan, developed.! Sunday, August 17, 2014 White Plum Asanga Lineage Page #5 of #54 To set up a monastic system for such large Sangha, Master Daoxin is credited for bringing precepts, other schools of teaching such as Lankavatara Sutra, and the !chanting of Heart Sutra into the daily practice of Zen monks.! Daman Hongren 弘忍大滿禪師 （西天卅二祖，東土五祖）AD602-675! ! Hungren was a boy of seven at the time, out begging with his mother. Tao-hsin recognized his capacity for truth and asked the mother to allow her son to become his !disciple.! Huineng, in his Platform Sutra, tells of how he came to visit the monastery at Huangmei, where Hung-jen, having succeeded his teacher Tao-hsin, resided with over 700 followers. He described how Hung-jen secretly arranged to meet him one night and how !that meeting led to his enlightenment.! Dajian Huineng 六祖慧能大師-(南宗)（西天卅三祖，東土六祖）(AD638-713)! ! One of the most important Masters in the history of Zen was Hui-neng, an uneducated layman who did not become a monk until many years after he was given transmission to become the Sixth Patriarch. Hui-neng's teachings have been so admired that they have been entitled the Platform, although strictly speaking a sutra is supposed to represent the words of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni.! Dajian Huineng: Sutra s -《 The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 》! ! Qingyuan Xingsi 青原行思禪師 (660AD-740)! ! Qingyuan went to study with the Zen master Huineng and asked, " what work is to be done so as not to fall into stages?" The Zen master inquired, "What have you done?" Qingyuan said, "I do not even practice the holy truths." The Zen master said, "What stage do you fall into?" Quingyuan said, "If I do not even practice the holy truths, what !stages are there?" The Zen master recognized his profound capacity.! Shitou X#qi$n 石頭希遷禪師-(石頭宗) (AD700-790)! ! Shitou Hsi-chien was born in Guandong Province in southern China. When he was twelve years old he became a disciple of the Sixth Patriach, Hui-neng. Upon Hui-neng's death two years later, Shitou practiced on his own for fifteen years and then studied with Ching-yuan, one of Hui-neng's main successors. He then established his practice in a hut on a rocky ledge (hence his name Shitou, literally "Rock") in Hunan.! !Shítóu X%qi&n: collections of zen readings - Harmony of Difference and Equality! Yaoshan Weiyan 药⼭惟俨 （751－834）! ! Sunday, August 17, 2014 White Plum Asanga Lineage Page #6 of #54 He first called on Shitou, then went to Mazu, with whom he became !enlightened.
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