Dharma transmission
Zen succession ritual
Dharma transmission is the formal recognition in Zen Buddhism that a student has received and understood a teacher's spiritual insight, authorizing them to teach independently.
The ceremony marks an unbroken lineage of awakening traced back to the Buddha himself.
She received dharma transmission from her master after twenty years of practice.
- patriarchsMale ancestral leaders
- meditationFocused attention practice
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- sanghaBuddhist religious community
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
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