Lineage of Dajian Huineng
Dharma transmission
Lineage of Dajian Huineng
12 teachers and ancestors, 28 students and descendants traced through transmission.
Dajian Huineng stands 33 generations from Shakyamuni Buddha in the Early Chan line, receiving transmission from Daman Hongren (602–675). The line above runs back through Dazu Huike, Jianzhi Sengcan, Dayi Daoxin and their predecessors to Shakyamuni Buddha.
This line belongs to Early Chan. Every name below links to that master’s own record, with the sources for each transmission.
Line of succession to Dajian Huineng
The single line of formal transmission, root first. Where a master had several teachers this follows the one carrying the succession; the fuller set of ancestors is listed below.
- Shakyamuni Buddha
- Mahakashyapa
- Ananda
- Shanakavasa
- Upagupta
- Dhritaka
- Michaka
- Vasumitra
- Buddhanandi
- Buddhamitra
- Parshva
- Punyayashas
- Ashvaghosha
- Kapimala
- Nagarjuna
- Aryadeva
- Rahulata
- Sanghanandi
- Gayashata
- Kumarata
- Jayata
- Vasubandhu
- Manorhita
- Haklena
- Simha
- Vasasita
- Punyamitra
- Prajnatara
- Bodhidharma
- Dazu Huike
- Jianzhi Sengcan
- Dayi Daoxin
- Daman Hongren
- Dajian Huineng
Teachings attributed to Dajian Huineng
- A Beardless Foreigner
- An Illiterate Patriarch
- Do Not Think Good, Do Not Think Not-Good
- It Is Your Mind That Moves
- Not the Flag, Not the Wind
- Not The Wind, Not The Flag
- Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liùzǔ Tánjīng)
- Platform Sutra: No-Thought, No-Form, No-Abiding
- Platform Sutra: On Self-Nature
- Self-Nature Suffices
- There Is No Mirror Stand
- Think Neither Good Nor Evil
- Without Thinking Good or Evil
- Your Original Face